Monthly Archives: January 2007

Twitter Tours

Jan
10
2007
By Gary Barber

Posted in  social networking, twitter

If you have not heard of Twitter, where have you been? To some people its mindless noise and a drain on productivity. Kathy Sierra says, it’s raised the distraction factor to new heights. Cameron Adams sees it as a measure of coolness or not. Or maybe its just basically a social networking web / mobile phone / IM based IRC service that allows you to answer one question “what are you doing”.

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When is too Old

Jan
6
2007
By Gary Barber

Posted in  career, education

If you haven’t heard it personally you will know someone how has:

I’m getting too old for this, but I hope I can finish this one last project/design before I’m forced out.

This is often from an extremely experienced coder/designer over 40. It’s an old problem. It goes back to the 1970’s even. But still today it’s present even in the web industry. But why? Are we valuing the perceived spirit of creativity, youth and cheap labour over experience too much?

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For 2007 I will…

Jan
4
2007
By Gary Barber

Posted in  musing

Taking a leaf from Derek Featherstone. I have decided that its a good idea that I should at least try and document (publicly) my goals for the next 12 months. I don’t usually even privately both with this type of thing and just let the New Year slide on by. But I believe I need to mentally organise my normally chaotic mind.

For 2007 I’m going to at least attempt:

  • Do more networking outside of the web community (not that I don’t love you guys).
  • Drink less (well try too).
  • Sleep more and consume less coffee / Red Bull / Pepsi Max.
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Microformats goes up a notch

Jan
1
2007
By Gary Barber

Posted in  software, web design

Mozilla labs in mid Dec 2006 released the next step of solid integration of a detection tool into a browser platform with the release of the Firefox extension Operator.

Previous to this there was only the Firefox extension Tails. Good as it was, it effectively stopped development with the release of Firefox 2.x. Tails was just a microformats detection and browsing tool.

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