A nice and useful Django template tag for doing star ratings. Via Nathan. Visit site »
Frank is one of the most brilliant people I’ve had the pleasure to work with (he used to work for The World Company, although not in the same division as me), and here he spouts off fountains of accurate information about hiring programers. I would suggest that basically everything he says is equally applicable to designers. You’ll probably also want to read Frank’s follow-up, which he posted after the article got Dugg and Slashdotted.
For my part, I would say that I think Frank is 100% right, but I would also say this: having been on two different teams now that I would say are basically full of experts, I can say this: there is a downside. The upsides are obvious, and Frank goes over them in his writing. The downside is simply that experts don’t want to do bitch work. And, every company has bitch work. Someone has to do the bitch work. So while I totally agree with Frank that companies should spend more time trying to get real experts, I would also caution against not having any junior or entry level people to handle the bitch work. Visit site »
Flickr member David Hogan (Cap’n Surly) put together a nice Google map of some of his favorite locations for shooting in Seattle. I’ve already been to many of them, but there are definitely a few new ones to me on here that I need to hit up. Visit site »
Leah has posted her slides from the recent Future of Web Apps conference in London, detailing her lessons learned in developing Pownce, the popular Django-based social web app. Visit site »
Is so happy for everyone at the ‘vIne and MSNBC.com!
I’ve always found this one annoying, too. There are countless other examples of phrases that people simply utter without really thinking about what they’re saying, but this one is the worst offender.
But this isn’t my personal biggest pet peeve in US English. The phrase I really hate is “a whole ‘nother.” People say this all the time — I even say it myself once in a while — but if you really think about it, it’s not even possible to properly write it. And it just sounds so damn hickish. I used to think it was a Kansas thing, but people up here in the Northwest say it, too. Visit site »