In these times of web standards advocates speaking the message of cross browser compatibility and not tying site to specific browsers or devices, why, why, WHY, are people suddenly busying themselves with making iPhone optimised versions of their services?
37signals have been doing it (in fact, I find that fairly hypocritical of them, and have stopped [...]

Just picked up on an excellent blog post via Reddit (some non-political stuff does still appear on there).
Deadlines, Overtime and Undertime talks about what happens to productivity when people work longer hours in an attempt to get a project finished for a tight, unreasonable deadline.
More code bugs, more sick days, lower morale, unimpressed client, reduced long [...]

No matter how much effort you put into thinking about a site design, how you lay things out, how you highlight certain things, there are pretty much always comments about how you could improve it, how certain things are annoying etc…
I find that when you launch a new web site, or a redesign of an [...]

Re-inventing nature for cheaper solar power suggests a group fo Australian scientists have developed something akin to photosythesis, on a small scale.
If they really have managed that, and they can harness that energy in electrical form, and scale it up, that is awesome news.  Much more efficient than our current solar panel technology.
There’s a few “if’s” [...]