January, 2006

Who Designs These Things

For Christmas I bought a Canon Selphy CP510 for Anna. It’s a really cool dye sublimation printer that will print up to 4×6 photographs. The photos are water proof and basically every bit as good as those you’d get from CVS or Walgreens.

Except some idiot designed the physical unit.

Refining the Identity Framework

My goal for any API I develop is to keep things simple. This is especially true for the TurboGears Identity framework, because it identity management and access control can be a pretty daunting concept for anyone to grasp.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
— Charles Mingus

Microsoft Still Doesn’t Get Standards

As part of my job I use the Microsoft JavaScript language reference all day long (the product I work on embeds the Microsoft Script engine). Up until today, I’ve been able to access this site via FireFox, and although it didn’t work as good as the MSIE version, it worked OK.