Various bloggies
April 17th, 2003
I feel a strong urge to do a "me too" on various blogs today. So let's get on with it:
- Compress your data: Seems like a good idea. Every browsers supports compression AFAIK, and the client machines usually have CPU to spare to do some decompression. What I'm not entirely sure of, is that every RSS aggregator supports zipped streams. Well, they should, of course. People are kind enough to provide you with free content, you could be at least so polite to not drain their bandwidth. And CPU usage (to do their compression) is not billed.
- Classifying programmers, or how terminology gets obfuscated over time. I've read the same discussion about "programmer" vs "architect" not so long ago (sorry, I don't think I can Google the link back up). A related issue: should you present yourself as "Software Engineer" or as "Senior Software Engineer", with "senior" in the meaning of "knowledgeable"? It sounds weird to be active in a field for 5 years, and call yourself "senior" already. OTOH, 5 years experience in one specific IT domain is very likely to make you the oldest one in that domain ;-)
- Vera, a New Free Font Family From Bitstream: cool. Looks like a clean font (to somebody who can hardly make the distinction between Serif and Sans Serif). The only problem of course: how an I use fonts? When I think "font", I think "improve the look of a web page", but I don't know of any method to force a user to download a font to look at your page. (I might be wrong about this -- tips&hints as always welcome). As a side thought: nice to see that an open source community can convince a commercial entity to release something under a *PL. Even nicer to see that a commercial entity lets itself be convinced to release something under a *PL.
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