What's Global Moxie?
Global Moxie is the hypertext laboratory of Josh Clark, a designer, developer, and author who offers workshops and consulting for iPhone app design. He’s also creator of Big Medium, a web content management system. Josh spins words and code from multimedia studios in Providence, RI, and Paris, France.
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I wrote the "C25K" training program for new runners over a decade ago. Its philosophy overlaps neatly with my philosophy of software design.
Your faithful correspondent fell under the browbeating eye of authority on a few recent and essentially trivial occasions, making me think a bit about the effects of control, rule enforcement and tone in my own work.
Neil Fraser's diff library makes it easy to compare blocks of text.
As you build a product or service, identify the important features that are not being requested.
Today’s beta update marks the 50th pre-release version of Big Medium 2. Yep, count ‘em... Fifty. What's left to do?
The adage “good fences make good neighbors” is only occasionally true in collaborative software.
User communities own and define technologies as much or more than the inventors. A piano from 1817 is the perfect example.
Big Medium has developed a shrewd nose for the scent of processed pork. The app uses a broad arsenal of anti-spam techniques that together create a useful profile for website defense.
Daylight-saving time is more complicated than a Florida electoral ballot.
“Avoid premature optimization” is one of the axioms of software development. It’s basically fancy talk for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Are you a web developer who works on a Mac? Did you know that you can install the W3C's HTML validator directly on your Mac?
Perl Critic for BBEdit is a free script plugin for the BBEdit text editor to enable Perl programmers to check their code format against the style guidelines of the Perl Best Practices book by Damian Conway. A nifty tool to help keep your code tidy. Free.