Phillip Harrington

• Personal home page: http://phillipharrington.com/

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• May 17, 2001: Response to Is anyone worried by hailstorm?

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• January 25, 2000, on Converting from Microsoft Word to HTML:

  For mass find a replace features, I enjoy the Allaire products HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio. They let you do find and replace features on whole folders. Makes changing MS HTML into legible/legal HTML a little easier. I've noticed MS HTML does sneaky stuff like incorrect nesting that works with IE, but breaks NetScape (subtle browser war tactic???). The Allaire products also have a "code sweeper" function which you can set to do things like "strip the font tag" or "strip ending P tags". You can customize the usage of all tags with code sweeper. Also there is a validate function that will point out the nesting errors. It's handy and so far my favorite editor. It has a WYSIWYG thing too, but it's not that great and I never use it. The 4.0 version of these programs great on Windows98/NT but I would be careful with CF Studio 4.5. I had strange memory problems with it.

• April 26, 2001, on ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up:

  It's very sad to see the dreams of Philip go up in smoke by some heartless VCs who don't understand what he was trying to accomplish. I got the sense from the early days of ArsDigita that making $millions was an aside. I recall a soft spoken Philip on web cast talking about how web servers were objects; how better software could make a better society; how training kids to make useful web services was important; how open sourcing his ideas was helping us all to made great strides forward. Those were exciting times! Why must it still come down to $money money money? It's sad that of all the people Philip has evangelized - he couldn't convince the people who needed to love the dream most. I think what the Plaintiffs in the law suit are doing is despicable and I wish they would drop their suit, rehire the people who made ArsDigita what it was and get out of the way.

• June 30, 2003, on What can we learn from Jakob Nielsen?:

  "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug not only has a title that's right up my alley, but has a couple of chapters on how to run your own usability testing.