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Engineers like problems and businesspeople like solutions. When was the last time you heard any executive say, “let’s sit down in front of this whiteboard and try to better understand the problem at hand”? If it was recent, congratulations, you’re in a lucky minority. The truth is that the majority of executives want to hear solutions, not problems; sales, not internal struggle.

A Mac software company, Panic, just released their newest product: Coda. I am thoroughly impressed by the extreme attention to detail and quality paid by those developers on both the website and the product itself — it’s nothing short of a work of art.
That said, I don’t think I’d use Coda myself because I already [...]

There’s a simple coding (logical, not syntactic) style difference found when writing code with conditionals. The first form prefers positive checks to screen for error conditions which are handled later in else clauses. The second form prefers negative checks at the beginning of a routine to throw error codes and escape before the body of [...]

Bank of America’s new ATMs are a step forward. First, they’re lit up better. Second, they don’t require envelopes for deposits anymore: you can slide your checks directly into the ATM and it will automatically scan and attempt OCR on the check. This means when you deposit a check that was printed in a machine-readable [...]

Well I know Eventful was trying to connect more with its customers and extend itself across other media, but moving to a Twitter-only interface is surprising. I guess they’re taking “keep it simple” to heart.