End of the line for Final Cut Studio?
According to AppleInsider, Apple is scaling back the Final Cut Studio apps to fit "prosumers". This sounds like an unfortunate disaster for the professional industry, but certainly seems to fit with Apple's trends the last few years.
I wonder if there's more to say.
Restaurants with Flash-based web sites are hurting themselves
A conversation Dan Wineman has every month or so, along with me, John Gruber, and countless scores of other people.
Handling error conditions with proper forethought
There is apparently a new C-like programming language called Go. While I have not spent time to read much detail, I found the following passage on the FAQ page, talking about assertions, to be insightful:
Go doesnt provide assertions. They are undeniably convenient, but our experience has been that programmers use them as a crutch to avoid thinking about proper error handling and reporting. Proper error handling means that servers continue operation after non-fatal errors instead of crashing. Proper error reporting means that errors are direct and to the point, saving the programmer from interpreting a large crash trace. Precise errors are particularly important when the programmer seeing the errors is not familiar with the code. [...] Time invested writing a good error message now pays off later when [something] breaks.
This sort of design philosophy is applicable to software development in any language.
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Twittage
- Can #Apple not produce a goddamn display anymore without a piece of shit reflective glass in front of it?
- Doug Stanhope at the Burbon last night: filthy, offensive, astute, mad hilarious. (Thanks to Tony's hangover for my last-minute ticket)
- Twitter search is utterly broken (no results even for a valid search), am I right?
- Words which disgust me: "biopic"
- http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/bp-photoshops-fake-photo-of-command.html ...and not just one, but several.