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Fun With Focus Groups:

(Via Bug Bash.)

Freelance Freedom #21:

(Via Freelance Switch.)

Multi-Safari: Testing with 10 versions of Safari at once:

Michel Fortin has created special versions of Safari that allow you to run them all on the same machine. This allows you to test your Ajax application in a variety of versions.

There are similar things for explorer and firefox so this is a great addition to the developers tool box…

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Joe Walker shows a tip from DWR.Next:

I asked Joe to show us something interesting that he is playing with on DWR and he quickly obliged by showing us a new file upload and download feature that allows you to do new fancy things with files.

What is cool about this is that the APIs from Java and JavaScript lands feel right in each, but to do this DWR has to do a lot of fancy work to hide the details.

This is some crazy coolness

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

I’m not usually one to get squeamish, but this wigged me…:

I’m not usually one to get squeamish, but this wigged me the hell out:
That fellow is a coconut crab and not, as you might initially suspect, a rubber B-movie prop.>

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(Via kottke.org.)

‘The Real Toy Story’:

Those aforelinked Chinese toy factory photographs are the work of Michael Wolf, as part of a larger art project regarding Chinese-made toys. (Thanks to Ramanan Sivaranjan.)

Interesting and sad at the same time…

(Via Daring Fireball.)

iPhone: Context over consistency:

Apple recently posted an iPhone update which, among other things, adds an “iTunes” icon to the iPhone home screen.

Ask 37signals: Pressure to grow?:

José Bonnet asks:

How do you handle the pressure to grow?
Do you keep just saying ‘No!’?

Ask 37signals: How to escape the waterfall?:

Oliver writes:

I become frustrated at trying to introduce more innovative methods of software development at the large IT consulting firm I work for. Are there any methods to trying to get 1980’s waterfall lovers to even think of rapid development techniques as anything but “silly crap suitable for start-ups but with not place in Real Development Companies” (paraphrased), or should I just quit and find somebody more exciting to work for?

(Via Signal vs. Noise.)