Seth's Surprise Is Ready

Yesterday I mentioned that one of us was working on a surprise for Frontier developers.

That someone was Brian Andresen, and the surprise was Transport Layer Security for UserLand Frontier and Radio UserLand (on the client side).

It's pretty exciting, but it's late on a Saturday night so we aren't really expecting much reaction before tomorrow.

This is indeed exciting news. It will be even more exciting when they implement the Mac OS X version ;-)

Keeping an eye on Macrobyte's Transport Layer Security site.

Thanks Brian and Seth

via hbwt - Joel on Software - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed

I'm going to let you in on a little secret about those non-technical management types that will make your life a million times easier. It's real simple. Once you know my secret, you'll never have trouble working with non-technical managers again

As always, Joel's essays are not just well worth reading but are worth acting upon.

Jim Roepcke's observation about CSS support in Frontier/Manila/Radio is IMHO right on the mark. It's partly (even mainly) a legacy issue. The CSS purists are overlooking the difficulty of taking pre-CSS design decisions. Hindsight has 20:20 vision ;-)

Jim, aslo has some good links in that post. Like Jim, I'm thinking of CSSifying my website(s). But will I be prepared to compromise the look and feel by doing so? I guess it depends on how gracefully the CSS I use degrades in older browsers.

This Time For Sure!

Time to eat my own dog food. Today VFTH goes CSS. And the crowd goes wild...There, a little move-in accomplished. Enough contrast to read clearly? Type sizes OK? Let me know if you find me mucking up a perfectly good design.

Al has a nice clean CSSified look to View From The Heart. Bravo Al!

I've just seen this reported on the tube. LOL - BBC News | EUROPE | Spanish inquisition into invasion gaffe

Red-faced Royal Marines have been forced to beat a hasty retreat after storming a Spanish beach resort instead of the fortress rock of Gibraltar.

A map-reading glitch sent the 20-strong invasion force onto the beach at La Linea, the town on the frontier with the British colony, to the surprise of Spanish locals.

British Computer Society | Turing Lecture 2002

Smaller, faster, better - but is it nanotechnology?

Speaker: Professor Mark E Welland (Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge)

Had I been in London that day I would have definitely made the effort to attend this event.

A List Apart: Better Living Through XHTML

If you want your site to work well in today's browsers and non-traditional devices, and to continue to work well in tomorrow's, is a good idea to author new sites in XHTML, and to convert old pages to XHTML as your work schedule permits.

CSS Layouts - saila.com

CSS Layouts
A tableless, CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout

Michael Himsolt documents his AppleScripted post-to-radio-from-BBedit experiments.

Tomorrow's Professor Postings

Serious Instructional Technology (SiT): A Daily Log of Instructional Technology News and Ideas

As a sometime server administrator (it's actually something I enjoy sometimes), I have less trouble with centralized servers and see great value in them. While I want to give my faculty, staff and students the benefits of template-driven, easy content managemenwith system-wide integration, I don't want the headaches that go with client-side support I want people to be able to edit anywhere (from home or office), but I still want control over look and feel.

I agree with David here. I think that a combination of a good client-side tool for flexibility and a good server-side CMS gives the best of both worlds.