Archive of web developers

Arr! Yahoo, prepare to be boarded!

on February 2nd, 2008 in Linden Lab, Second Life, Tech, Video games by | 2 Comments

With the recent news of Yahoo’s potential acquisition by vile Microsoft and its prior layoff of 1000 hardworking geeks, there was a bit of an air of piracy in the office last week. Linden Lab is going into another round of recruitment, focusing on web developers, QA folk, and other…

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Counterweight to snark

on February 8th, 2005 in ALA, Avenging, Digital Library, Graphic Design, Tech, User Interface Design by | 8 Comments

I’m typing with my face today due to a stupidity-induced thumb injury from, I think, painting my basement. Homeowners beware. In the meantime, just to show that I’m not all thorns and lemons, here are some good websites. Good in that attainable way. You will notice that these are mostly…

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More on lousy digital library design

on February 6th, 2005 in ALA, Avenging, Digital Library, Graphic Design, Interface design, Tech, User Interface Design by | 26 Comments

Thanks for all of the kind comments on the previous post. They really helped balance the freaking out I had to do when a kind well-meaning soul posted this link as an example of a REALLY GOOD children’s website. Ok. Let’s go through this again. Slowly. This time I’m going…

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