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I’ve been playing with Dashcode today, creating my first ever Dashboard widget (something that I wanted to do for some time) as part of a whole project I’m working on right now.
Basically I’ve discovered that there are, roughly speaking (and please correct me if I’m wrong), two kinds of Dashboard widgets:

Those that you cannot resize, [...]

Give me an API and I’ll move the web.
OK, I’m actually building the API myself this time. That’s why so few posts this month. RESTful, featuring multiple export formats, secure, configurable, usable on top of any existing Django application. It can even generate its own wrappers in a myriad of programming languages.

Back in 2004 I drafted a content management system based on PHP and AJAX, featuring ideas borrowed from everywhere and that, all in all, formed a rather coherent set. I wrote the system in a couple of days, in my daily commuting between Lausanne and Geneva, and it was called Propano.

Found at ReubenMiller’s, via Dark Roasted Blend.

Interaction08: IxD’s in Savannah; Alan Cooper:
Programmers are draftsmen. However, they are different than pre-industrial workers. They are self-directed and know better than managers what to do. They respect intelligence, not authority. You can’t tell them what to do, you can only coerce them. Their satisfaction comes from the quality of their work. Unlike pre-industrial craftsmen, [...]

PC Writer 2008: El Primer Novelista Digital
El editor está feliz: entre las ventajas de PC Writer 2008, anotó que podría prescindir de los escritores, con sus faltas de inspiración, sus retrasos y sus elevados salarios, en los casos más famosos.

Si no viste Mundo Grua, te recomiendo que lo hagas. Tremenda peli.