{"id":315,"date":"2004-09-07T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=315"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T03:45:22","slug":"not-just-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/315","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Usability&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some infotech-related warps before I&#8217;ll proceed to my late night programming related tasks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmane.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GMane<\/a>. Nope it&#8217;s not related with GMail but the idea is as slick as well&#8230; or even better. Info-overload level&#8230; stratosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Spolsky: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/NotJustUsability.html\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s Not Just Usability<\/a>. Indeed&#8230; one needs charm too. Software applications are not exempted to charm pre-requisites you know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/09\/06\/ams_goes_windows_for_warships\/\" target=\"_blank\">OSS torpedoed: Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships<\/a>. Giving a new dimension to the object known as the &#8216;Blue Screen of Death&#8217;&#8230; or is it &#8216;Scream&#8217;? Well&#8230; who cares there&#8217;s not much difference really.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planet.mozilla.org\/rss10.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Mozilla <\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/Rss.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Explorer<\/a> blogs. What else can you ask for? Those are direct links to their feeds by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Still don&#8217;t have an RSS Aggregator? Time to download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rssbandit.org\" target=\"_blank\">RSSBandit<\/a> which recently <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/project\/showfiles.php?group_id=96589&#038;package_id=103276&#038;release_id=264582\" target=\"_blank\">upgraded to v1.2.0.117<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What else do you want?  How about blogs from <a href=\"http:\/\/doom-ed.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Cormack<\/a> (the brains behind IDSoftware and Doom) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qtdiary.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/zdnet.com.com\/2100-1104-5325241.html\" target=\"_blank\">fake<\/a> Quentin blog though. But who cares? Even Tarantino&#8217;s publicist was impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some infotech-related warps before I&#8217;ll proceed to my late night programming related tasks. GMane. Nope it&#8217;s not related with GMail but the idea is as slick as well&#8230; or even better. Info-overload level&#8230; stratosphere. Joel Spolsky: It&#8217;s Not Just Usability. Indeed&#8230; one needs charm too. Software applications are not exempted to charm pre-requisites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomlinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}