Having lived with make for over 20 years; I’ve decided that something has to be better. Turns out, there is something better. I’ve been enjoying getting to know both Python and scons together for the last few months. What a wonderful tool for building. There is a ton of information online, so I won’t add …
Monthly Archive: November 2009
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Web developers outsmarting users (or not). Design assumptions that hurt.
Website #FAILs. Lately I’ve noticed a lot of websites make crazy assumptions about my location. I was thinking it was geolocation gone wrong, but it appears that in general they are doing something completely illogical: they are using my language preference list to guess where I am. This amounts to assuming that all French speaking …
