The time has come to flag other documentation sources.

This includes get-down step-by-step tutorials - of course! - but also many other layers, not all of which might strike us at first blush as documentation. Remember - documentation is communal narrative.

Where else to begin my own jazz-like resource logging (no reason for me to compete with the invaluable Ruminations, for sure) than Userland's own directory?

(I'll collate these irregular posts into a more permanent set of references as time goes by ...).

  feedback:   12:39:30 PM    

Speaking of philosophy, congratulations to Fog Creek for their first City Desk service pack! It takes a steady nerve to write software after publishing a big-time book on user interface and delivering a bug-tracking tool.

Where Userland's philosophy emphasizes a high-wire learn-by-doing act in the sight of the masses, Fog Creek polishes Faberge eggs in the back-room. Fine. The trick is to remain faithful to the philosophy that brung you to the dance.

Since not-all-the-world will ever be blogged - nor should it be - City Desk offers the perfect complement to Frontier-Radio for 'classic' web site development and content management.

(This doesn't mean Userland is bug-happy. I got torqued recently by a discussion forum post that tagged Radio as beta software being sold for forty bucks. Given their extraordinary reach, Userland stuff is remarkably bullet-proof.  Forthwith, a new Userland philosophy piece on the difference between bootstrapping and betas ...).

  feedback:   10:26:27 AM    

How To Organize Your Weblog Posts. Well, not quite. Just a simple look at the weblog list on your home page. Serious organization waits on an upcoming explanation of those powerful but pesky categories.  feedback:   7:47:40 AM