Monthly Archive: November 2009

Nov
19

A compelling replacement for make

SCons project logo

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 …

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Nov
17

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 …

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