Showing posts with label technical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technical. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2007

Unintelligent design

The Motorola V220. We bought one last year for our older daughter, on a pay-as-you-go tariff. It can play interesting sounds, take photos and so on, and it comes with a USB port. Cool!

Unfortunately, it doesn't come with any driver software, and a long search on the internet yielded nothing that would allow me to get anything off it or onto it. With the possible exception of a €40 piece of proprietary software made by somebody else.

Hello????????? If as a hardware manufacturer (yes, Motorola, that's you I'm talking about), you aren't going to provide an easy and intuitive means of using an interface, don't provide the interface!!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

A really useful WordPress resource ...

... for anybody working seriously with it, as I am at the moment, despite having this on Blogger, can be found here. The source of every file that is distributed with WordPress, with all functions referenced, files included, function definitions, classes, constants and so on.

The aim is presumably to document all these things in the fullness of time. For now, at least it's possible to trace fairly easily using it where everything comes from ....