You know the real problem with frameworks? They demo too well. Someone shows you their favourite framework and demonstrates how you can build 50% of your application in half an hour! Great! That other 50% can’t be hard, can it? But it turns out that what looked like 50% is actually 5%, and filling in the other 95% gets exponentially more difficult as you approach the 100% mark. Frameworks are great for building toys, and that fools us — again and again — into assuming they’re good for building products.


Mike Taylor via What happened to programming redux
Permalink | Comments | March 9th, 2010 at 4:48 pm | 16 hours ago

Transformation.

via digg, via severinerobic

Permalink | Comments | March 8th, 2010 at 3:56 pm | 1 day ago
thedailywhat:


Oscars: So this happened.
[twitpic.]


I want to plug my tail into your dragon

thedailywhat:

Oscars: So this happened.

[twitpic.]

I want to plug my tail into your dragon

Permalink | Comments | March 7th, 2010 at 9:42 pm | 2 days ago

Oscars Livebloggin' Part 2

- Not sure why all those people were standing there at the begin
- Neil Patrick Harris: always so refreshing, so fun.
- Damn Helen Mirren. lol.
- Sandra Bullock looks sooo amazing.
- Can Sandra Bullock hold it together? Looks like she’s crying, and its been 10 mins since movie started.
- Katheryn Bigolow sent James Cameron a gift basket with a timer.
- Inside Joke between Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin & George Clooney. Whats the stare all about?
- Stanly Tucci. Man he looks so creepy.
- Christoph Waltz wins Oscar #1 of the evening. Well deserved. Aw, you feel good about the guy wining it.
- Daam. Ryan Reynolds is hawt. I can’t quite get over the fact that it seems he’s laughing at you.
- WTF, CTV Fail. Way to cut the feed.
- Look, Squirrel!
- Amanda (Syfried) is shorter than Miley! .
- Colin Ferrel in Crazy Heart.. unexpected.
- Really? Cris Pine to announce District 9? Why cuz he was on another ship movie? Creative.
- Zoe: what kind of elevator music is this? (right before commercials)
- John Hughes created some of the most memorable movies of the lat 20 years.
- …but the tribute is awkward.
- Geez, its 9:30 and we’ve only seen like 3 oscars being handed in.
- Short Documentary acceptance speech. Did that woman just steal the stage?
- Holy shit, gonna have nightmares with Ben Stiller’s Avatar costume
- LOL he has a tail!
- “I want to plug my tail into your dragon”

10pm - I got bored…Going to bed. heh.

Permalink | Comments | March 7th, 2010 at 8:38 pm | 2 days ago

Oscars Livebloggin'

Red Carpet

- The presenters really suck.
- What is Miley Cyrus doing at the Oscars, also don’t slouch girl.
- Jeff Bridges, 5th nom? No way.
- OMG Kristen Stewart I-only-know-how-to-squint-girl, is there?!?!
- Kate Winslet is so… so… amazing. Eloquent. Gorgeous.
- Gabourey form Precious, pretty humble. That interviewer: awkward.
- Taylor Lautner just padded Sherri in the back. lol
- Meryl Streep looks pretty good in white. Except from the chest down it looks like she’s wearing a Toga.

Permalink | Comments | March 7th, 2010 at 8:27 pm | 2 days ago
Permalink | Comments | March 5th, 2010 at 11:28 am | 4 days ago

Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass.

Must watch.

Permalink | Comments | March 3rd, 2010 at 11:32 am | 6 days ago
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The future of gaming. Go to the 20 minute mark if you’re short on time. (via kotaku)

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