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Re: A River of TWiT

Fabio Cevasco — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:25:35 -0000

It definitely sounds interesting, although, as others pointed out, it is prone to spam and to flooding (but again, it will be called *river* for a reason, right?).

Personally, I'm not a big fan of real-time streams, mostly because I think they are difficult to follow and therefore difficult to be really useful in the long term. While a live stream of this kind would definitely be amusing to look at, it won't be as useful as, say, a combination of del.icio.us and twitter.

A middle-tier of moderation could be a solution, but it's difficult to foresee how viable this might be: you'd need quite a lot of people checking the strem in real time, *all the time*. Maybe Twit fans can do that though, it's hard to tell at thi stage.

Another problem would be content duplication: you really don't want people to suggest the same damn link 5 times every time, right?
StackOverflow encountered a similar problem: when a question was posted, it literally took a couple of minutes or less for the fast person to post an answer. Meanwhile, another 5 users may have been busy writing exactly the same answer: this resulted in frequent duplication.

For some ideas on how to solve this problem, have a look at the StackOverflow blog: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/solving-t...

Anyhow, hope it works out, one way or the other!

Re: Firefox 3: History

Fabio Cevasco — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:50:23 -0000

Thanks for the recap. Personally, the AwesomeBar truly stands out from competition (namely Opera), as I pointed out myselt (http://www.h3rald.com/blog/thoughts-on-firefox3...).
Overall, Firefox 3 is much, much more usable, fast and "smart" than its predecessor.

Kudos to you, the Dev Team and the whole community!

Re: Field Guide to Firefox 3

Fabio Cevasco — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:17:31 -0000

Thanks for blogging about Firefox 3. Your posts were really very helpful for writing my latest eBook about Firefox 3:

http://www.sitepoint.com/books/firefox3/

Re: TODO: design a better todo

Fabio Cevasco — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:55:00 -0000

Well, for me it's quite simple:\n\nTodoist (http://todoist.com/) is the best *online* todo list and Tudumo (http://www.tudumo.com) is the best *offline* one. Both free (for now, at least), both simple and both really slick and neat.

Re: Vim for the win

Fabio Cevasco — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:18:17 -0000

I have to agree with you. I love Vim. I love its minimalism and power.

Typing things like "gg=G" to indent all your code *properly* is just priceless, and it makes sense, too!

(for non Vimmers:
gg: go to the beginning of the document
=: Indent line
G: go to the end of the document)