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You can call Steve Ballmer many things, but you cannot call him the “the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today,” as Forbes' Adam Hartung did in a recent article. It's easy to see Microsoft as a bumbling fool of the tech world, but when you look closely at its business, the company's core competencies, and Ballmer's decisions, a coherent picture begins to form. It's a picture of a company being run from a very rational and respectable set of philosophies. Embrace. Extend. Repeat.
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Lorem ipsum, that place holder text that you often see in website and other graphic design, has been around since the sixteenth century by some accounts, but became popular in the 60s when Madison Avenue and the golden age of advertising took off. Its use today in web design, however, is corrupting to the point that it’s become evil. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, so I don't have to write this subhead.
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Utter nonsense.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Quote: So here’s my advice to those planning to build a website. Start with your message. Then write a story in words and surround that with whatever the lorem ipsum equivalent of graphics and images is. Once you’ve nailed your branding, messaging and story to the point where you know exactly the experience you want, only then do you commission expert designers and programmers to manifest your vision.
Total crap. Anyone who's ever written copy knows that you don't design around what you write, you write to fit the space your design affords.
And anyone who's ever written a website knows that getting the final copy to go into the space can be the last thing you get before you go live.
And anyone who's ever maintained a site knows there's no such thing as the final copy.
Tripe.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Quote: Before the age of Photoshop, designers would have to actually draw things so it made sense to put in filler text while the actual copy was being worked out. But today there is no need for that.
Of course not, because every page is made of static text that never changes so testing how it looks before content exists and making sure the layout is properly flexible is absurd!
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Once you’ve nailed your branding, messaging and story to the point where you know exactly the experience you want, only then do you commission expert designers and programmers to manifest your vision.
Highly not true, IMHO.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: manifest your vision.
I use whisky for that.
Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Once you’ve nailed your branding, messaging and story to the point where you
know exactly the experience you want, only then do you commission expert
designers and programmers
Prior to this stage, you hire monkeys and grave diggers.
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Hmmm. That post wasn't worth a 1. Have a 5 to compensate.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: That post wasn't worth a 1
Harsh. Not even worth the minimum rating.
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A coming Microsoft promotion will provide Windows 8 Pro to buyers of Windows 7-based PCs for just $14.99, according to my sources. The promotion begins June 2. The price is right!
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Surely it's $14.99 too much?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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It looks like you only get the offer if you buy a new Win-7 PC within the promotion date range...
.. so its more like $1,015...
Be The Noise
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They can't even give it away
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Lea Verou takes a look at some of the misconceptions of web standards, what the W3C and its working groups actually do and how the standardisation process works. Very few browser prefixes were damaged in the creation of this article.
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Yep. That's what I get for taking a week off: way behind the news. New items incoming.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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That just links back to the message you were replying to.
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Alas, haste maketh waste.
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Oh, your head hasn't exploded yet? This should do it. H9RBS.js (v0.0001) is a flexible, dependency-free, lightweight, device-agnostic, modular, baked-in, component framework MVC library shoelacestrap to help you kickstart your responsive CSS-based app architecture backbone kitchensink tweetybirds. The synergy with vapor.js homebrews my scaffold repos.
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HTML9? I'm still getting used to 5...
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That link does not work for me (opens The Insider News forum, but does not open a particular message).
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*JS is a typed dialect of JavaScript that offers a C-like type system with manual memory management. It compiles to JavaScript and lets you write memory-efficient and GC pause-free code less painfully. Try it in the interactive tutorial... the code is compiled as you type.
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As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team. I'll take your first round pick and a coder to be named later.
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