Just a note to anyone reading Digg and anyone who has used the Vitaly Friedman Web Developer Handbook website. Some very unscrupulous guy in Romania has blatantly ripped the site off. The reason I am so upset is because, quite honestly, Vitaly’s site is the best collection of web developer links ever created. A cheap knockoff that gets dugg is just begging to be ripped apart. I will be adding this to the “users who blogged this” on digg, so hopefully the following link gets some traffic:
The original complaint: Dealing With Plagiarism Issues (Vitaly Friedman’s Blog)
The real site: The Web Developer’s Handbook
For some reason every Web 2.0 application I have ever used, and pretty much every web application period (that I’ve used) fails me on this one stickler that I have. Let me update my data in bulk. Spending hours tagging photos, bookmarks, and the like is not what I think of as convienient, ‘cool’, or fun. If I wanted to do that, I’d use paper and scribble every URL on a post-it note and throw it in a hat for tag-soup. Really, why add AJAX if I can’t add the same tag to many different items at once without going to another page? Why have a really nice fading modal box for deletion if it still refreshes the page (ma.gnolia)?
A lot of these applications are very sweet, money making ideas but frankly, until I can do everything with ease… I won’t use the application nearly as much. When I can right click a link in the browser, tag it, and send it on its way I will be a little happier. When I can tag a ton of items at once, and add/edit/delete them on the fly, I will be willing to pay for the service. Unless of course it costs more than a candybar a week, cause then I just can’t justify it… I’ll build it myself.
Just kidding, sometimes.
Just updated the site to use the add-digg api instead of my plugin for the digg page, and added a projects section for my code. I will be adding content to the projects section whenever I can. Expect more updates soon!
Update: Added ma.gnolia syndication as well. Not sure if I will keep them both, but I’ll give it a shot.
Ride Everest! I got a sneak peak, and grabbed a photo. No, I didn’t ride but hey, I was there. Sorry for the poor quality, I took the shot with my cameraphone.
Here we go, some new links:
TrackStick: Basically, throw this dongle in some little kids backpack, retrieve it, and see where little Susy went that day, and how much time she spent at recess… Illegal when used without permission of course! [Oh and I checked, runs between $250-$350 US] Did I forget to mention it can integrate with Google maps? [+10 trendiness for use of AJAX and Web 2.0!]
Asus 19″ LCD: Yes, its another widescreen LCD, so why do I care? Well this one has a sweet warranty stating that you can return it if even one pixel is bright (read: dead).
Creative TravelDock: This one is for Ali. Portable speakers that don’t just work for iPods and they happen to be small, and have a very nice battery life.
