14
2005
Today I also came across a nasty endless Javascript loop. This sucker can trap IE, Firefox and Opera in an endless loop requiring you to kill the application via task manager or kill the process if using one of the *nix.
Javascript is really useful on the sites I regularly visit. But I’d like to have it always on for those sites, and mostly off for just web surfing.
Go get the NoScript - Firefox Extension immediately.
From the description
NoScript allows JavaScript execution only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality… Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript
If you doubt the need for this I point you to the following site. I won’t link to it as it will kill 90% of my visitors’ browsers. Save your work first and copy the address and paste it into your address bar. It will kick off an endless loop javascript. Let me know if your browser is safe. Of course that applies only if you have javascript on.
unfix.org/~jeroen/archive/javascript_loop.html
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14
2005
After writing about Products or Services I can across Jeffrey Zeldman’s Should you blog have a business
When Coudal Partners, frustrated by the limited options available for custom CD and DVD packaging, solved their problem by inventing Jewelboxing, it occured to them that people who read their blog might like the product as well. They guessed right. Coudal Partners now develops multiple products and is well on its way toward abandoning client services altogether.
Likewise, panelist Jason Fried, whose user experience consultancy developed a blog which begat a readership which began buying the user experience consultancy’s first product, which freed Fried and his friends to pretty much quit the client services racket in favor of product development.
I like that reference to client services racket. The tension is between generating sufficient revenue from an existing client services business while developing, trialling and maturing a viable product.
In my experience many firms attempt that transition. Most fail because a passion for service occupies so much of best people’s energy. Product innovators within the firm need to have the rest of the system functioning.
Still it is a great and worthy goal.
Update 21 October 2008 fixed a typo in a URL that generated a 404 error
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