Posts Tagged with ‘Alex-Payne’

I watched the bitchmeme today float over the blogs and Techmeme with a wry grin and a shake of my head. Twitter has had a horrible week: the downtime and missing features continue. The users are revolting, posting blog posts and FriendFeed items threatening defection at every new development. The first complaints were that the folks at Twitter didn't communicate enough, and now the problem is that the communication is that of developers on the defensive, with a different reason [...]

One of the hardest things for me when I'm writing about Web 2.0 is sticking to the news and the applications themselves. Every time I see a new app, especially ones that are really taking off or do something I think is fascinating, the former developer in me wants to look under the hood and check it out.
When I left the development world, Rails didn't exist, and Javascript was something lazy developers used to make an app with little substance [...]