Jeremy Zawodny commented on something I’ve felt for a long time – client side web development is hard work and doesn’t get the respect it deserves.
The work I do mostly focuses on things behind the scenes. Like Rafe, early on I made the decision that it is where I could be most successful and apply my talents. While I have a familiarity with the basics of client side development, and do it when called for, I have extreme respect for those on our staff that wrestle with its complexity everyday.
Admist the news of the past two weeks, you might have missed this: a presidential commission said our Iraq intelligence was ‘dead wrong’ and that we still know “disturbingly little” about the weapons programs and intentions of many of our “most dangerous adversaries.”
Today it looks like the British are following suit.
Notice the extreme lack of folks losing their jobs over this. Sad. No one takes responsibility and everyone just passes the buck.
Things have been real, real busy lately. Besides, I’m having too much fun going local 🙂
paradox1x will resume shortly.
God bless him. The Lord, I am sure, was awaiting him with open arms. My world feels more empty with his leaving.
Updated Pope John Paul II Philadelphia Visit Photo Gallery. Note the changed URL.
On the eve of the Pope’s passing, I thought it poignant that my wife found, in her memory box, a supplement commemorating his historic visit to Philadelphia.
You can see scans bere: October 3rd and 4th, 1979, Pope John Paul II Visited Philadelphia: a special image gallery at Philly Future.
Note the updated link to the gallery.
I’m having some issues with paradox1x right now. Apologies for the weekend posts disappearing.
This thing is in massive need of a redesign anyway 🙂
Read about it here.
Thanks again to everyone that’s helped!
Turns out the number one recommendation from folks is to change the name of the site and move to a new domain name. Losing “Philly Future” all over again. As Dan Hartung said in the Ask Metafilter thread – “what you are doing with the site is many times more important than the name itself”. He’s right.
This is sad. But holding onto a name is stupid if it’s keeping us back. I am going to move updates on the situation over to Philly Future since a name change would a community impacting decision.
I’m not sure where that phrase came from, but the software engineers that believe in it set their egos aside and work together to achieve awesome things. It’s one of the reasons why open source development can be so powerful.
Dan Gillmor just posted about our Google problem. Thanks Dan 🙂
Someone listed our site in DMOZ.org. Thank you! That will help I’m sure. Don’t know if that’s the complete answer though…
Speaking of which someone in Metafilter suggested paying $5 for a Google Answer. I’m going to give that a try tonight.
Userland has told me they cannot implement a 302. So that’s out of the question.