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"Why do so many organizations still demand that you add “www.” in front of their domain name when browsing their site? People, it is so 1997. Typing is boring. Stop using it."

"I switch browsers like others switch … something they switch very often. Why does it have to be so hard? All I want is a browser that: Is small and nimble Feels like a Mac application Has good ad blocking support Handles Flash on demand Safari locks up too often, and a number of sites do not work with it. Shiira is small and nice, but has no decent ad blocking."

"I was trying to get my head around Axis and read this: Apache Axis2 is built on Apache Axiom, a new high performant, pull-based XML object model that was released two days ago."

"Quote of the Day: Assaf: “I never saw a programming language that can cure stupidity, only languages that add safety caps so they look safe, while slowing you down.” (Via Raganwald.)"

"From Revolution in The Valley: Instead of arguing about new software ideas, we actually tried them out by writing quick prototypes, keeping the ideas that worked best and discarding the others. We always had something running that represented our best thinking at the time."

"Alan Francis: Jobs, etc.: “[…] being an old-school XP-er who thinks Kent got right the first time and only dug a deeper hole trying to re-explain himself. " Well put. XP 1.0 is mostly brilliant, whereas the additional value of 2.0 could could have been published in a short addendum. Kent Beck is probably the hero of the geeky part of my life and I am sorry to say that I find the quality of his work receding."

"I don’t like Fit. Believe me, I want to like it, I have tried to like it. I mean, Ward Cunningham created it for crying out loud, the man is a genius, so I am probably just missing something - right? Every time I have looked at Fit, I always like the parts that handle column fixtures. They are clean and easy to read and generally does a really good job."

"I always knew one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn’t know it would be called Ruby. – Kent Beck Blaine Buxton links to this quote at ozmmdotorg." (Via Mike Bowler’s thoughts.)"

"Why in the name of one trillion unused functions of which the one you actually use doesn’t work can something so completely dysfunctional as Word ever become so successful? Update: Yes, a lot of aggravation was the cause of the rant above, and yes, I actually have to use it as Pages can’t handle .dot files or quite complex table based company headers and footers."

"I am reading Cal Henderson’s Building Scalable Web Sites. It covers a lot of topics, some of which I am closely familiar with such as version control. Cal does however have suggestions for situations I have never been in, in particular I do love this quote from the part on how to handle hardware platform growth: “When you get to the point of having a few thousand servers […]”. Never been there."