A BETTER VIEWSOURCE. This isn't a giant leap for mankind sort of Firefox Add-on, but still something that should be a standard tool for web developers, View Source Chart. Here's a screenpic of my dbvt.com home page source with the Add-on. Nesting is nice! (That's a derivation from a line from one of my movie faves, Real Genius, where Val Kilmer as Chris Knight yells after finding the solution to his laser heat dissipation problem, "How's it feel to be frozen?! Yeah, ice is nice!")
NOT ENOUGH TIME TO LOVE JASON HALEY. Every .NET Geek's buddy Jason A. Haley took some time off from his Interesting Finds but he's back, and he's bigger and badder than ever. I've been reading Jason's Finds for years and I get more value from them now than ever, wishing I had more time to read more posts Jason links to.
MAC AND ME. I viewed the Apple product chart Guy Kawasaki links to in this Evolution of Apple Product Design post and immediately was transported back through the last 20-some years of my career where even though I've made my money with the PC, many significant moments can be linked to Apple products. My first encounter with Apple was writing a game in 1984 on an Apple IIe for a Graphics Development class in grad school. The screen was a room, with each wall containing one or more holes where a rotating gun in the center of the screen tried to shoot a rat as it moved around the room's exterior. If the gun's ray of moving pixels intersected with the rat's position as it crossed the wall opening, user points were incremented. I loved that game.
ROB CONERY GIVES GREAT WEBCASTS. Rob Conery, author of SubSonic, does a great job with his webcasts on using the excellent SubSonic DAL code builder. I'm glad I'm a complete Community Server junkie, cause I'd hate having to decide between Rob's SubSonic and Robert Hinojosa's .netTiers as my DAL generator of choice.
NOAH WYLE MAKES A GREAT STEVE JOBS, AND ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL A GREAT BILL GATES. I watched Pirates of Silicon Valley again the other night. Definitely B-movie material where everything is overdone, but educational and entertaining none-the-less. I love the movie's Jobs-Gates climax, with Wyle as Jobs realizing that Gates was stealing his Mac interface for Windows (as Jobs stole it from Xerox PARC.) "Our stuff is better!" Wyle says, to which Anthony Michael Hall as Gates replies, "It doesn't matter." And history continues to play out the validity and nuance of that B-movie climax.