mikemo

I just have to share this great term that my brother Brian came up with a while back on a Joel on Software discussion board: Action-Oriented Programming.

Regarding motivation to get started implementing a product idea once you have one: Whatever you do, do something. Us programmers, we tend to overanalyze things. Lots of up-front design, trying to decide if it's the right thing to do, not sure if we have enough education yet, etc. But from what I've read about successful entrepreneurs, they are DOERS. They're Action-Oriented. So I'm inventing a new term: Action-Oriented Programming: writing the damn program instead of thinking about writing it.

I use Gmail, and although I love it in general, one thing that is a little tedious is that when you want to send someone an attachment, you can't drag and drop the attachment onto your message like you can with most native email clients -- instead you have to click "Attach a file," then click "Browse," and then browse to the file that you want to attach.

But dragdropupload is a slick little Firefox extension that addresses this problem. Once you install it, you can drag and drop any file from your computer on top of the words "Attach a file" in Gmail. Sweet! (You can also drag and drop onto any other website that does file upload, but Gmail is where I find it most useful.)

Today I typed "wikipedia" into Google. Look at the weird subcategories that showed up under the main wikipedia.org link:

What the?!?

So of course I clicked 'em all. "Wikipedia:Hauptseite" and "Accueil" take you to the home pages of the German and French versions of Wikipedia, respectively. "Tirol" takes you to the German-language page describing Tirol, which is apparently "a historical region of Western Central Europe" (according to the corresponding English-language page). The last three links take you to the English-language pages for the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Denzel Washington, and commodity markets.