Tag Archives: software

Good software is bad for kids

Now, this guy works for schools, so its not like Bill Gates coming out and saying “Hey, Apple Bad, Buy MS” or anything.  But what he IS falling prey to is that we MUST keep lowering the bar on everything.  Software has to all be the same or else how can we deal?  Shockingly, kids [...]

Software Specifications

Software specifications, when introduced for the first time to a company, can be a horrible thing. 
There’s the initial design of the specification document, who gets to write them, etc.
Process stuff.
But there’s a bigger problem.
The lie.
When a specification is written, and sent to development, it should be a static document.  Understandably, this isn’t always possible.  Not [...]

Good God, Windows 7 not backwards compatable?

I can’t even imagine the size of this problem, if true
I also don’t understand the logic behind the decision that spawned this.  If going to Windows7 means buying all new software, and/or patching code so extensively as to pale the Y2K crisis (and, contrary to the post, I believe it would far exceed Y2K) why [...]

Internet Explorer continues to suck donkey dick

Again, I should preface this by saying I am, in fact, behind a firewall of no shallow depth.
However, I find it hard to believe that the firewall is causing all of IE7 to take forever, simply fail, or behave poorly in general.
For example…I have three tabs open.  None of them are on pages of any [...]

Firefox 3, Beta 4

So I was VERY excited when I heard Firefox3 would have tags for bookmarks. But, even better, it does the below! W00t! Seems to me that a site with a well written description should be VERY helpful
Macworld | Hands on with Firefox 3
So how exactly do you use the tags [...]