2011 Reading Recap
Another year, another batch of great reading. Web nerdery was dominated by ALA books; next year, it won’t be. Far more success was found in fiction: I read four awesome books that I’d recommend to anyone.
Kittens Do Not, In Fact, Die When Marketing Wins
Jared Spool makes a “witty” comment at An Event Apart that gets rebroadcast by Jeffrey Zeldman and retweeted by dozens of others and I get all riled up because the comment — and the thinking behind it — is totally stupid.
(The) DON'T PANIC (Button)
The market is flooding with tablets of all shapes, sizes and software. All of them are trying to gain some ground on the iPad. But Apple’s product engineers still win in one very important regard: the single DON’T PANIC button on the bottom.
Review: Windows Phone 7
Even with the drama around iPhones, iOS, Android and Blackberry, the market bears yet another contender: Microsoft. In the unusual position of being the severe underdog, they bucked almost every UI trend in Windows Phone 7. This is a review.
Dive Into Accessibility
Mark Pilgrim disappeared from the Interwebs and took all of his material with him. Others have brought up mirrors of Dive Into Python and Dive Into HTML5. That’s cool. I brought up a mirror of Dive Into Accessibility from 2002.