michaels0620

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by michaels0620 16y ago
John Resig's, Pro Javascript Techniques was great. It covers good ground and from it you could see how to build something like jQuery yourself.
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by michaels0620 16y ago
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. One thing that has worked really well is to take 3' x 2' whiteboard, rip off the frame and place it flat on your desk. It is fantastic for when you are talking to someone at your desk and quick diagram would
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by michaels0620 17y ago
"When almost nothing will work on IE6, I hope that would encourage the "standard" to be updated." I also have to use IE6 at work. The problem is that the folks in charge say "Our entire intranet works in IE6. It may (or may not) work entire
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by michaels0620 17y ago
Christopher Logue's War Music http://www.amazon.com/War-Music-Account-Books-Homers/dp/0226... It's the beginnings of a modern retelling of Homer's Iliad. If you like it there are two other short books (All Day Permanent Red and Homer Cold
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by michaels0620 17y ago
Often times when (3) ("Estimate the time needed for each agenda topic") fails is because not enough time is budgeted for discussion afterwards. Don't budget 30 minutes for an item if you expect the presentation itself to take 20-25.
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by michaels0620 17y ago
Edward Tufte ( http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ ) isn't a bad place to start when it comes to useful (information packed) and non-ugly (in a spare, efficient way) infographics.
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by michaels0620 17y ago
My problem would be trusting all of this information to a third party. At the very least, I would want a means of exporting the information in some open format to my desktop.
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by michaels0620 17y ago
It's an interesting list, but I do have a problem with: "7. We would replace PR-speak and certain Orwellian words and expressions with more neutral, precise language. If someone we interview misused language, we would paraphrase instead of
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by michaels0620 17y ago
For those interested in Stoicism, Epictetus' Enchiridion (The Handbook) is an excellent short introduction. http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
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by michaels0620 18y ago
I think the tables he chose were examples of bad table design rather than anything inherently wrong with using tables per se. It would have been more insightful had a better table example been used followed by a the new representation with
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by michaels0620 18y ago
I remember early in my programming career, I had a program that was a tangled mess and making changes was requiring more and more effort just to keep everything straight. I was able to refactor the code into three well contained, clean modu