Comments on: 8 Web Worker Wishes for 2008

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:41:54 +0000

Why should other web workers conforming to your personal ideology top your list? If your wish that web workers revolt against christianity and support Islam everyone would be completely up in arms. In what way does it benefit you that other people should conform to your ideas of what is or is not good software?

I just don’t get it.

By: Anne Zelenka

Anne Zelenka — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:36:49 +0000

Joe: I still want that too. Especially the nap rooms :)

By: Joe Flood

Joe Flood — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:15:22 +0000

I want to revive one of your wishes from last year – the coworking space, with Starbucks coffee, nap rooms, giant displays and the pleasant sounds of nature. Why can’t we have this?

By: Niyaz PK

Niyaz PK — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:14:31 +0000

Good list. Looking forward for more…

By: lukehoersten

lukehoersten — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:45:53 +0000

Linux is great for web work. I do a lot of web programming with Python and PHP and Linux just makes that super easy. Fonts and graphics don’t look as nice as they do with Mac OS X but it’s pretty close.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:40:28 +0000

Count me in as well for not giving in to Vista…to me, the OS is supposed to be some kind of shell that just enables other apps to run, this is should not be using ALL MY RESOURCES ALREADY!!! That and having tinkered with computers running it, I don’t see any noticeable improvements over XP…then again, I’m someone who switched from Windows 95 to XP, so I’m used to seeing night and day difference between operating systems.

By: Lawrence Salberg

Lawrence Salberg — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:47:16 +0000

Excellent. As a 20-year purchaser of IBM and Microsoft products, I have no intention of buying Vista (in its current form) as I can do everything I’ll ever need to do for the next five years with XP SP2, and Adobe CS2. So, when I upgrade my 3-year old HP laptop sometime in 2008, I’m looking strongly at getting a MacBook Pro. Just because. I hate Apple fanboys (a simple read of my blog would prove that), but it’s rather ridiculous that here in almost 2008, the PC still doesn’t have an answer to something as native and necessary as TextMate. Sure, we have giant full-blown IDE’s from Microsoft et. al. (that take 650Mb of disk space and 2 minutes to load), and freeware/shareware offshoots (some good, some bad). I’ll always be a PC guy at heart (I heart DOS), but I guess I’m going to return to my Apple II roots this year.

As for your number 3, unfortunately, I think that will go the other way. The whole ‘dumb bunny’ population has yet to truly get online. They still pay with checks at the grocery store, buy throwaway cell phones, and go to the library to check their email. As broadband prices come down even lower, as computers become more necessary, as pressure from family and friends increase, this populace will suddenly discover YouTube and MySpace – and their heads will explode. Trust me, we’ll be getting forwarded emails about a very sick girl who needs our prayers… for many, many, more years. For every one person we educate, two more are getting a new computer and broadband this Christmas. Ugh… I look forward to 2020.