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Hand coding is faster says the NYTimes

Personally, I've felt for a long time that writing HTML with a good text editor, like Homesite or BBEdit is faster, in the long run, than using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver or Expression Web. Well, apparently, I'm not alone. In the April 21st Talk to the Newsroom article, Khoi Vinh, Design Director for the New York Times says:

Nanotechnology? What are you talking about?

Trying to define nanotechnology is like the famous tale of the blind men and the elephant: Six blind men were asked to determine what an elephant looked like by feeling different parts of the elephant's body. The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar; the one who feels the tail says the elephant is like a rope; the one who feels the trunk says the elephant is like a tree branch; the one who feels the ear says the elephant is like a hand fan; the one who feels the belly says the elephant is like a wall; and the one who feels the tusk says the elephant is like a solid pipe. It's the same with nanotechnology – it is different things to different people.

NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS

eldavojohn writes "The design director of NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh, recently answered readers' questions in the Times's occasional feature 'Ask the Times.' He was asked how the Web site looks so consistently nice and polished no matter which browser or resolution is used to access it. His answer begins: 'It's our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to "hand code" everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results.'"

Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2

The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some tests, it’s three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7:

Burnette: Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2

The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some tests, it’s three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7:

Ed Burnette: Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2

The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some tests, it’s three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7:

Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone

Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is "A Load of Bollocks". Anyone here been shaken down by their Internet Service Provider? "The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane.'"

Making a Better Robotic Hand: It's All In the Palm

What makes a hand so versatile? Fingers come to mind first -- but as designers of robot arms have learned, said neurobotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka, the hand is just as much about the palm. Specifically, the palm's flexibility -- a quality I'd never even considered until she mentioned it and I tried to use my hand while keeping my palm stiff.

Hand-coding HTML is still hip

Being that my first "real" job was at a web design shop as a code monkey, it warmed my heart to see Khoi Vinh, Design Director for the NY Times state that they still write HTML code by hand. Of course, I have to believe that he was referring to templating and such, as there is no way they could maintain or deliver that amount of content without some kind of CMS.

Lovingly Craft Your HTML

When I wrote about the New York Times's design director Khoi Vinh's comment that he and his staff still hand code their HTML, this stirred a fair amount of both nostalgic and contemporary reverie among TidBITS readers (see "Hand Coding HTML Is Still in Vogue," 2008-04-28). Slashdot picked up Vinh's comment separately, and many readers there seemed to misunderstand - they thought Vinh was saying that every page on the Times' site was being created by hand. One commenter wrote, "Handcoding takes far more time than is necessary in a changing scenario of today's news. Effort not proportional to returns. As a shareholder, i [sic] would sue them for wasting money."

Latest: Animal epidemics: On the front line

TOM HENDERSON quickly learned the difference between veterinary training and veterinary practice when, fresh from university, he was dealt an anthrax outbreak in Tatura, Victoria, in his native Australia. He says he was on the front line, witnessing its horrors first-hand. "The first positive case I saw really hit home," he says. “But there’s nothing you can do to prevent it spreading except for vaccinating. In a way, it was just as important for us to calm down the farmers and help them to understand what was happening." Fortunately, the authorities in Victoria were able to draw on recent experience to restrict the outbreak to a 16-kilometre radius. "That was one positive. Because the previous outbreak was fresh in people’s memories, it was over relatively quickly," says Henderson.

Never Mind Fingerprints, Here Are Genome-prints

Items that leave a mark as fossils are usually bones or shells, blogs Olivia Judson, but genomes can also leave a trail. The bigger the genome of an organism, she says, the more DNA is packed into the cell, affecting the cell's volume. If the same cell type is compared across species, then the difference in size reflects the difference in genome size, she says. Though genome size says nothing about complexity, it still can provide a bit of information about metabolism and lifestyle of the extinct organism, says Judson.

@hand Awarded Patents for Mobile Software Technology

hand Corporation, the leader in enterprise mobility software, announces the award of two patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The inventions describe @hand's unique ability to support distributed software applications with intelligent mobile data models and a relationship-aware transaction framework.

Epic says Unreal Engine 4 will 'exclusively target the next console generation'

Epic says Unreal Engine 4 will 'exclusively target the next console generation'Epic says Unreal Engine 4 will 'exclusively target the next console generation'

@hand Awarded Patents for Mobile Software Technology

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--@hand Corporation, the leader in enterprise mobility software, announces the award of two patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The inventions describe @hand

28 Neolithic Hand Axes Recovered From Seabed Off Norfolk

Carved by the hand of a Neanderthal 100,000 years ago. One of the remarkable hand axes discovered from the bed of the North Sea. © SCEZ

New iPhone case says it can boost reception

New iPhone case says it can boost receptionGriffin Technology on Friday announced its ClearBoost case for the iPhone. The company says that the case’s built-in booster antenna improves reception, avoids dropped calls and helps isolate the iPhone from interference.

Science Says War Is Over Now (Given the Right Conditions)

Frans de Waal stands in a watchtower at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center north of Atlanta, talking about war. As three hulking male chimpanzees and a dozen females loll below him, the renowned primatologist rejects the idea that war stems from “some sort of blind aggressive drive.� Observations of lethal fighting among chimpanzees, our close genetic relatives, have persuaded many people that war has deep biological roots. But de Waal says that primates, and especially humans, are “very calculating� and will abandon aggressive strategies that no longer serve their interests. “War is evitable,� de Waal says, “if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.�

Naked CIO Says Open Source Is Not Dead, Just Limited

Open source isn’t dead, says the silicon.com columnist known as The Naked CIO, it’s just limited to those niche areas in which it has reached maturity, such as the Web and network security. The beginning of his piece indicates that open source evangelists and open source developers still have a lot of work to convince CIOs like this writer that open source is right for their organizations. The Naked CIO says:

Ed Burnette: 3x faster than FF2

The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some tests, it’s three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7:

Rogers warns new entrants, signals faster iPhone imminent: analysts

Rogers' lack of details on its iPhone announcement lends credence to rumours that a faster version of the device is imminent, analysts say.Rogers' lack of details on its iPhone announcement lends credence to rumours that a faster version of the device is imminent, analysts say.

'iPhone opens a new era in mobile gaming' says Gameloft CEO

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Wikipedia Breeds Unwitting Trust (Says IT Professor)

kingston writes ""As I say to my students 'if you had to have brain surgery would you prefer someone who has been through medical school, trained and researched in the field, or the student next to you who has read Wikipedia'?" So says Deakin University associate professor of information systems, Sharman Lichtenstein, who believes Wikipedia, where anyone can edit a page entry, is fostering a climate of blind trust among people seeking information. Professor Lichtenstein says the reliance by students on Wikipedia for finding information, and acceptance of the practice by teachers and academics, was "crowding out" valuable knowledge and creating a generation unable to source "credible expert" views even if desired. "People are unwittingly trusting the information they find on Wikipedia, yet experience has shown it can be wrong, incomplete,

Keeping Search Data is Beneficial, Google Says

The European Commission's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party wants search engines to limit data retention to six months. But Google says keeping data for up to 18 months improves search results. Google's analysis of server logs finds patterns, says Peter Fleishcher, Google's global privacy counsel, and Google offers privacy choices.

Cybersquatters have reached record numbers, says WIPO

Everyone has had it happen to them: you're trying to remember the URL to your bank's web site, but type in some variation of the domain—americabank.com instead of bankofamerica.com, for example. Next thing you know, instead of your bank's web site, you end up at some place trying to sell you cheap Viagra. Cybersquatters are the bane of many users' (and businesses') existence, and the World Intellectual Property Organization says that they have grown to unprecedented numbers in recent years. WIPO says that it received a record number of complaints over cybersquatting in 2007—2,156 to be exact, which is a nearly 50 percent increase since 2005.

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