by Peter Seibel
-- A fantastic collection of interviews with 15 famous programmers. Contains some great history and insights on the field of "computer science."
-- Geeks, drugs, and deception. An entertaining look into the (fictional) lives of techno con artists, and how a recently-fired comic book artist get pulled into their inner circle.
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-- Particularly useful reference when trying to eek out a few extra milliseconds of load times in older browsers.
-- Interesting tech, and somewhat engaging, but disappointing ending (or lack thereof.)
, by Neil Strauss
-- An engaging, first-person account on transforming from an urban writer into "Jason Bourne."
, by Cory Doctrow
-- A high school hacker fights the 'Department of Homeland Security' to reclaim American civil liberties after anti-terror tactics are taken to a new level.
-- Techniques-for, and the value-of sketching interactivity before developing products. Good ideas. OK book.
" -- About finding untapped opportunities in your market and repositioning yourself to capitalize on them. Easy to grasp; Longer then it needed to be.
" -- A thin book with some good best-practices, but a little disappointing. Perhaps it's JavaScript's fault, not the author's ;-)
" -- Good overview of usability issues in designing HTML forms, backed by examples and eye-tracking research. I bought the 
" by Marshall Goldsmith
-- Discusses interpersonal skills (and how to identify and fix them) that most commonly hold executives back in their career advancement.
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-- Lesson: Cut the corporate B.S. and stop wasting your time. Focus only on what matters most.
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-- Lessons on handling tough conversations: firing people, relationship problems, hostage negotiations (well, maybe not that last one.) Wasn't an exciting read, but I've been paying more attention to "turning points" in conversations since reading it.
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-- Lessons in building reusable ("pluggable") Django applications. Assumes you know the basics of Django and Python.
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-- I really enjoyed this one. Lots of suggestions and strategies for negotiating.
Just wanted to share this find: After the 1.0 update of FireBug last month, the extension stopped working for me on Firefox 2.0.x on Ubuntu. Thanks to a quick Google search, I found that FireBug conflicts with ColorZilla. After disabling ColorZilla, FireBug now works again.
(Via the comments in: Firebug 1.0: Public Beta, Still Free, and a Lite version for other browsers.)
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Update 2007-02-08: The author of ColorZilla contacted me, and while we still haven’t isolated the problem, we did find that my ColorZilla extension was at version 0.8.x, and wasn’t finding the 1.0 update. After un-installing and re-installing ColorZilla, it is now somewhat more compatible with FireBug. Both extensions load, and everything except the ColorZilla Eyedropper works.
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Update: It’s broken again… And once again, disabling ColorZilla got my FireBug working again. I don’t know which extension is causing the problem, but there seems to be a conflict.
alex 3:48 pm on February 7, 2007 Permalink |
Erik, I’m the author of ColorZilla and wanted to try and reproduce the conflict you experienced. I’m using ColorZilla together with the latest Firebug on all my machines without any problems, and as far as I know so do thousands of other users… Can you please give some more details about the problem you saw?
Also, if you want, feel free to email me.
-Alex
erik 6:40 pm on February 7, 2007 Permalink |
Hi Alex! Thanks for the post. I’ll send you an email tomorrow once I’m on the machine that was having a conflict.
ray 2:19 pm on May 12, 2007 Permalink |
Wow, I’ve been whacking my head against the monitor over this for several weeks now so thank you very much for posting this info. I’m running Edgy with the standard Fx install and Colorzilla 1.0 was definitely keeping Firebug locked out.
Dylan 3:12 pm on June 7, 2007 Permalink |
Hm, I’m having the same problem right now actually. Firebug suddenly stopped working (after an update I guess…because it worked before with both extensions enabled). With Colorzilla disabled, Firebug works perfectly. I’m using Colorzilla 1.0 and Firebug 1.05. Was any fix discovered or a reason found?
erik 3:21 pm on June 7, 2007 Permalink |
Hi Dylan. So far there’s still a conflict for me as well. Additionally, Colorzilla interferes with the del.icio.us plugin on some of my environments too :-( I exchanged a couple emails with Alex (see the first comment), but unfortunately he wasn’t seeing the same problem.
In the meantime, I’ve just been using system color-pickers or firebug (if the color is set via CSS.) On linux, I’ve been using an app called Gcolor2 which generally works well enough.
Bjorn 1:05 pm on October 18, 2007 Permalink |
I’m having the same problem.
John 3:35 am on January 9, 2008 Permalink |
Ubuntu 7.10
Firefox 2.0.0.11
NoScript 1.2.6 <= stopped working
Firebug 1.05 <= stopped working
Colorzilla 1.0
When I disabled Colorzilla, NoScript and Firebut worked again.
The following addons were not affected by Colorzilla
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3
Web Developer 1.0.2
-John
Rob 3:15 am on February 15, 2008 Permalink |
I’m having the same issues as others are reporting… Edgy, FF 2.0.0.12, Firebug 1.05, ColorZilla 2 downloaded today.
I’m using a standard install of Firefox with Firebug, which worked fine, until I installed ColorZilla.
Removing or disabling ColorZilla allows firebug works again.
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Rob
capi 10:27 am on July 4, 2008 Permalink |
i’m using firefox 2.0.0.15, firebug 1.05, colorzilla 1.9 (site says it is 2b, but it is actually 1.9) running on ubuntu gutsy.
same bug here.