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MARK STENCEL

A Vote for Better Design

Election problems last year proved that poor ‘usability’ is more than an annoyance or an aesthetic complaint.

A year of electronic forensics has failed to resolve what went wrong at the polls in Florida’s Sarasota County last November, when 18,000 voters mysteriously appeared to skip clicking on a [...]

Introducing Apollo

Mike Chambers

Adobe

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19 March 2007

Today we posted the first public prerelease builds of Apollo on Adobe Labs—the result of over a year and a half of development. While we are very excited to finally get Apollo into your hands, we still have a lot of work to do.

What [...]

Programming in Ruby

Ruby is a freely available pure, untyped, object-oriented language. Dave and Andy show how to use the language, while Yukihiro Matsumoto (Ruby’s creator) adds a note on why he developed it.

By Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, Dr. Dobb’s Journal
Jan 01, 2001
URL:http://www.ddj.com/web-development/184404436

Dave and Andy are consultants and coauthors of Programming Ruby [...]