B!? Links

In particular, I thought Alan Cooper’s keynote,  An Insurgency of Quality , was extremely interesting. It’s a verbose transcript; hope you don’t mind.

Write a web program such that:

• The first page of the program displays nothing but a text box and a submit button. You enter some arbitrary text and press the submit button, which takes you to …

• The second page is nothing but a single link labeled “click here”. The URL linked to must not contain the text entered in the first step (i.e. you are not supposed to pass the text as a parameter on the link). Clicking the link takes you to …

• The third page which contains “You said: XXX” (where XXX is the text you entered in the first step).

This gem allows you to access the content of:

• Open-office spreadsheets (.ods)
• Excel spreadsheets (.xls) and
• Google (online) spreadsheets

Here is EditArea, a free javascript editor for source code. (That is no way a WYSIWYG editor).
This editor is designed to edit souce code files in a textarea. The main goal is to allow text formatting, search and replace and real-time syntax highlight (for small text).

The Fourteen Types of Programmers

The Cults of Programming