Daniel Bruce

Nah, I'm fluent in Newb. - (teh)Hussein

Really? Where did you get the Newb/noob lessons? - possible248

Comes from years of being one. - (teh)Hussein

I'm pretty good with newb. Comes from years of tech support...LOL - Rah™

Browser. Otherwise, Remote Destop or VNC. - Rodfather

K-Meleon, then Vim. - Morton Fox

SSH, some sort of shell software, and either VIM or Emacs. =) - Daniel Bruce

EditPad Pro - Alex "Lasagna" Scoble

Sony Vegas - Candace Holly

Lightroom - John Worthington

TOAD - cjmart

Notepad++ - Mo Kargas

Trillian Pro - Michael W. May via twhirl

gimp - Pete Delucchi via fftogo

Firefox. Duh. - Dave Moyer

LUIGI - Outsanity

Photoshop - Carmen

Lightroom. - Russellreno

I second Firefox then Digsby then Dreamweaver - zoblue (Zulema ❤'s you)

i have taken a liking to chrome, however - cjmart

Photoshop. Lightroom, Dreamweaver - Joe via twhirl

Illustrator - Kyle Lacy

Clarion. Chrome. Windows Live Writer. Wordpress. Ultraedit. Axialis IconWorkshop. Filezilla. Setupbuilder. Audacity. Snagit. And my own password/account software. I use them all most every day. - Stu Andrews via twhirl

Um... Bittorrent, people. Bittorrent. - (teh)Hussein

Final Cut Pro - Larry Kless via twhirl

same here Alex - EditPad Pro rocks - Kim

My brain...when it decides to work.. - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath)

skitch - Duncan Riley

Tinderbox on my MacBook Pro - Rob McNair-Huff

Chrome, PasswordSafe, Trillian Astra - Jaemi Kehoe

How about the OS? Windows/Linux/OS X etc. You need to have an OS. - Nikhil Dandekar

Photoshop and Dreamweaver - ☛ Adam Helweh ☚

Visual Studio - Jemm

Notepad+ - Owen via twhirl

@Nikhil: as long as the OS can run my set of "need-to-have" programs, I don't care what it is. - Daniel Bruce

solitaire - Josh Haley

Camino. - Stellina

since the Go-Go DA hasn't been supported in nearly 2 decades I'll go with the more timely Photoshop app - Jim Goldstein

a text editor - Olivier

Debian - Marcos Marado

That's a tough question...if I had to choose though, it would be Photoshop CS3 (because then at least you'd get camera raw support (removing the need for Lightroom) and you can also design posters, etc. (though much easier in InDesign). - Don Martelli

If I have to choose ONE software item it has to be firefox. I can accomplish more with that, than any other peice of software, as long as I can have all the plugins I want. - Ian Hussein Maverick May

Textpad, Slickrun (Firefox goes without saying) - Sean McBride

#1 Like Mo Kargas : Notepad++ ; #2 Opera Browser ; #3 Like Michael W. May : Trillian Pro ; #4 winamp ; #5 Steam ^^ - TiTi

Chrome. - Matt Cutts

Who snuck that dot of acid in my drink? - Michael W. May

Wow... as odd, sometimes offensive, and trippy as that was, I just fav'd it. - Michael W. May

I wear some Hertzfeldt shirts to work sometimes. What better way to start a friendly conversation with your HR rep than this lovely gem: http://www.bitterfilms.com/gum... - Nathan Howell

I love this show. <3 - Daniel Bruce

I live in a giant bucket. - Akiva Moskovitz

THE MEME, IT'S HERE. LET'S GET IT ON! - Sparky

By far the freakiest video I have ever seen, fantastic! - Arthur Guy

good question. ideally all browsers should be 100 %. I'm getting 70 on FF3 and 74/100 on safari for windows. - Alan Le

here's the acid3 url http://acid3.acidtests.org/ - Alan Le

It's not the looks, it's what's under the hood. - Lindsay Donaghe

yup, no diggity Lindsay - plus, I've yet to see a really slick windows app anyway... - Zee from WeDoCreative

Wait, why is everyone freaking out (other than the Google fandom)? Opera's had tabs over the address bar forever now. - Akiva Moskovitz

Based on that alone, I don't like it at all. It looks great kid learning to use the Internet, though. - Rochelle

Akiva - it has JIT-compiled Javascript! It' s a mini-.Net! You should be excited! - Lindsay Donaghe

Akiva: it's because this is from Google. Who outside of the tech echo chamber knows Opera? Very few. But who knows Google? Everyone. - Robert Scoble

@Scoble: My mother knew of Opera! Without me even telling her about it, and she's as far away from computer literate as you can get. I'm still not sure how that happened. :p - Daniel Bruce

JIT compiled javascript is incredible. it's omgwtf awesome - Tad - the Meme Maker

it's the first thing in a while that made me think about getting a dinky little slimline windows laptop... - Zee from WeDoCreative

Daniel, I installed Opera for my mom a year or so ago. She uses both Opera and IE (not sure why she flips between the two) but she calls Opera "The O" and IE "The E". - Rochelle

Lindsay, but I'm not a Javascript programmer! Robert, I'm not sure that matters enough. The people outside of the tech echo chamber are the ones who don't see what the fuss about browsers even is; they're the ones perfectly happy with IE. - Akiva Moskovitz

Rochelle, think about it like this: your mother predicted the Google browser. A week or so ago she was having problems with a website but then said that if she opened it up in Google, it worked. 'What do you mean you opened it in Google?' 'Don't worry about it! I opened it in Google and now it works!' 'Okaaay...' - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, you keep talking about eventually needing to become more of a UI guy, and I need to as well. Part of that process includes learning Javascript. - Tad - the Meme Maker

Screenshots from here: http://gears.google.com/chrome... - Louis Gray

skeptical: there's no search box. There has to be a search box, this is a Google Browser! - Duncan Riley

Tad, you are depressing me. But it's true: as much as I enjoy programming .NET software, I do want to get into more cross-platform technologies as long as that cross-platform technology is not Java. - Akiva Moskovitz

Duncan, it's probably combined into the address bar. Most every modern browser on the planet supports this. - Akiva Moskovitz

I don't know how to feel about this. - Brandon McCall

That's okay, Brandon. We're here to feel for you. - Akiva Moskovitz

If its fast and doesnt crash/freeze it will be my favorite browser :) - Kyle Weller

Just please make it look better than Opera does on the Mac. Opera's good, but the interface on the Mac OS is so bad (and non-intuitive) that I can't bear to use it. - ☺ Cecily ☺

not the ui but more importantly separating processes, it is in this case what's up there tomorrow. - Zu aka ElijahBailey

if that's really it, i'll stick with flock - Faboo Mama

+1 faboo - Kyle Lacy

Just finished the McCloud comic on Chrome - looks very, very exciting. Can't wait for the Mac version! I'm never one to blindly "stick with ____" until I try the new thing. The early adopter gene I have has always treated me well. If it sucks, back to Firefox 3, which I love, but I will FOR SURE be trying Chrome out on OSX launch day. Google has been way way too good to me so far... - Steve Isaacs

i want to see what's under the hood.... - Carlos Eduardo Buarque

will it be beta forever as gmail? - Carlos Eduardo Buarque

I think so, almost every google app is still in beta. lol - Ron

@Zu: That's the bit I'm really looking forward to - separated processes. The comic (or somewhere else) mentioned something about plugins - if I didn't misread, I hope there'll be some third-party plugins. - Cyvros/fyc

interseting - Mona N.

And I'd really appreciate if you specify which form of VB you're hating - the classic one (VB6), the retarded child (VB7) or the modern ones (VB8+) - Yuvi

I think because I got dissed so much when I was a VB programmer. I feel like a "real" programmer writing in C#. Switched over with .Net around 2003. - Lindsay Donaghe

And because I have come to dislike the wordie-ness of VB. - Lindsay Donaghe

Because YOU like it! Seriously, though, my main reason is that I was raised on C-style programming. I messed around with some VB6 during my ASP days and just didn't like it. It's not because I'm not an opponent of indentation-style programming, either (I'm a huge F# fan). I have to deal with VB.NET and it's just incredibly wordy. Too much for my tastes. - Akiva Moskovitz

So, so far, we have 1. Religion, 2. Wordiness, and 3. "Peer Pressure" - Yuvi

As a sidenote, F# really rocks. Must find time to play with it more. As for other languages. - Mladen Srdić

Mladen, learn it now. I predicted Ruby's popularity as far back as 1999 (and regret just messing around with it rather than mastering it) and I'm predicting F#'s rise in popularity in 4-5 years. It's bloody fantastic. I use it for every little script I need these days. - Akiva Moskovitz

I liked working with VB espeically .NET and the stuff they have happening in the Framework and Foundation classes are exciting as hell - Steven Hodson

Strongly typed VB is too verbose. The type inference in VB9 makes it better but still not desirable - Nathan Howell

@Steven - Atlast, someone who shares my tastes! :D - Yuvi

@Nathan - I assume by strongly typed you mean Option Strict On? I consider that mode to be verbose C#, with the benefit of case insensitivity. - Yuvi

Akiva: I'm not going to master it soon. No way, i just can't find the time. The good thing is that i have a little background in Haskell, so when i finally start learning it, it will go fast. - Mladen Srdić

I honestly *liked* VB6... granted, I never did real enterprise/commercial development with it, but back in the win 98/2000/early xp days, I used to love how easy it was to slap together a custom windows app that could do pretty much anything I needed it to do. Newer versions seem to have sacrificed that ease/simplicity for... well, I can't say what exactly. But it feels like a bad trade off. - Eric

Mladen, yeah, that's going to be the biggest obstacle for programmers who have no ML background (like myself). It took me a long time to get my head around the functional programming paradigm but now that I have, I get irritated with C# often. - Akiva Moskovitz

Yes, Option Strict On. - Nathan Howell

One last thing on F#, it's funny that a lot of people even at Microsoft have no clue what it is. During the interview for the contract I'm currently on, I was doing a whiteboard test, was told I could do it in any language I wanted to, so I did it in three lines in F#. He was clueless about the syntax but after a minute of explanation, he grokked it immediately and said, 'Wow, I need to learn this.' Then he made me redo it in C#. :( - Akiva Moskovitz

@Akiva - Call me guilty - I've dismissed F# as a freak language first time I encountered it. Maybe I should give it another look. - Yuvi

I used to be an editor at Visual Basic Programmer's Journal (started there before it changed its name from BasicPro magazine). I will always have a soft spot in my heart for VB, but the hate of VB is historical. The priesthood of high-end programming never loved it and most of those who didn't like it work at Microsoft (which forbids its use in programming Windows). Now the Web has taken over and the people who want a fast-to-program-with language will go with Rails or Django. - Robert Scoble

No, we are freaks :D Functional paradigm is a must learn. As Akiva said, quickly you will become irritated by other languages, and how your language of choice suddenly became too verbal. - Mladen Srdić

Yuvi, the blending of object-oriented and functional programming is the future. More and more functional-style constructs are creeping into OOP languages. C# has lambdas now, there's LINQ, etc., etc. - Akiva Moskovitz

There's something to be said for a slightly higher barrier to entry. :) - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

My hatred for VB (originating from VB5 and VB6) stems from having to license the compiler and IDE from only one vendor: Microsoft, and the complete lack of documentation for anything unless you were part of the MSDN. C and C++ were far easier to cut my teeth on, especially when I stopped using a PC as my main computer. - Mark Trapp

I dislike how it looks (wordiness), and the fact that it has given rise to extreme amounts of bad programming practices (On Error Next, anyone?). Thought it's probably gotten better in its .NET days, there are just so many other languages that do things more succintly and effectively available for .NET that I don't see a need to use it. - Daniel Bruce

I thought you were talking about the beer VB (Victoria Bitter) I kinda like it, but Duncan can probably speak more about it :P - sergiooo

The 'C' style syntax is just more elegant. Python, Basic, VB....they hurt my eyes. - Peter Simard

@Peter: How dare you compare Python to VB? They are nowhere near eachother in syntax except for the very simple point that they don't have braces. - Daniel Bruce

I don't have a reason; I've always loved VB. I've always found it to be an excellent language for rapidly developing apps around the workplace. I never understood the hate for it. - Evan Sims

@Daniel - I'm with Peter - Somehow, VB8+ seem more Pythonic than C# or the language that must not be named. - Yuvi

I quite like VB, even though I spend most of my time in C#. Vb has a few nice features, such as the my namespace ( to name an obvious one). In fact I know devs who use Microsoft.VisualBasic from their C# programs. - Roberto Bonini

@Yuvi: I feel that is an affront to Python's simplicity and elegance. :( I do recognize that it is different from The Braced Ones, though, but I see Python as being in a completely different league from VB. - Daniel Bruce

@Daniel - I donno 'bout you, but I find the transition from VB8+ to Python and back pretty smooth. I must remind you I'm speaking of modern VB. - Yuvi

Is that just me again or did Mona's comment shape-shift?! - Yuvi

Time for bed Yuvi. ::-) - Kyle Lacy

Who ME?! - Yuvi

I still fully believe that flash is only right to use for movie/animation purposes, and games. Anything else is probably (most likely) wrong usage. - Daniel Bruce

flash on the web is broken. - Marcos Marado

Yes, you Yuvi. Seems eveytime I check, you've commented or posted in the past 10 minutes. And yes, AMEN. Question: do these apply to Silverlight as well? Silverlight is already SEO friendly. And I belive you can integrate your existing AJAXy controls straight into it. - Roberto Bonini

I believe a lot of these still apply to Silverlight, as it still requires a plugin to be installed, which can be a problem for many devices. It's also still pretty annoying. - Daniel Bruce

@Roberto Bonini - I wonder where the notion that SL is SEO friendly comes from. It's just a zip file, with APPLICATION CODE in it. How is THAT SEO friendly? (Note: I like Silverlight, and have actually programmed in it. I'm a .NET guy, so this is NOT flaming) - Yuvi

@Yuvi - I believe the argument is that the XAML stuff is "machine readable", whereas the flash stuff is compressed and/or binary. Of course, I have never used SilverLight, so I can't say whether this is just stupid, or not. - Daniel Bruce

I was just about to say the same thing. The way SL is structure the XAML is esseitially a text file that is parsed and rendered by the SL runtime ( itself a subset of .net 3.0). Hence XAMl is indexable by Google, etc becuase it is simply text. - Roberto Bonini

@Roberto, @Daniel - No, Wrong. XAML is an object initialization language - It just creates objects. In the case of Silverlight, it just creates Silverlight Objects - Textboxes, Labels, Buttons, etc. No Content. I can't see how SEO applies here. - Yuvi

Which is exactly why I'm only citing what I've heard, as I have no real experience with it. It did sound fishy. =P - Daniel Bruce

bump - Mona N.

haha bump... - Kyle Lacy

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I actually only go to beta.ff.com when I want to post a photo directly to FF. Not that I don't like it, I just don't need the majority of the new features. - Svetlana Gladkova

simplicity is nice, but i like the group feature, now i can access the user feeds by my own interests... even google has many features but not for everyone :). i think ff should be like apple, not like M$, thats also right :) - Alexander Oelling

I hate the old one and love the new one. The old one is too bare bones, and the new one provides just enough information. - Stephen Pierzchala

They added some new feats in the new one but designwise the old one still rocks!! - Hayk

It seems to me that I can't get past the first page in beta. If I click on the second page it always shows me pretty much the same stuff as the first, and the third and the fourth. When I go back to the first, it's all still there so it's not as though it's just moving at the same speed I'm going through it. Just feels very buggy. - Robert DeBord

I first heard about new design... just about now and I also think that it looks too odd currently, but I hope team gets things to better shape during time. Hey, it's still beta. ;) - Daniel Schildt

I love the new one except I can't find my feed on it. I always go back to the old one to do that and click on me. - Robert Scoble

Robert? They're still in beta... :\ - Mona N.

I don't like it too Steve :-| - Luca Conti

Luddites! ;) - Zio Bonino

I love the new design. <3 - Daniel Bruce

I'm really starting to appreciate the power of tagging users in the Friends Lists. So I'm digging the beta. - Hutch Carpenter

I agree, I favour the current one quite a bit. - heather ♥s fauns on mars.

I love the new design. Much better IMO... - Brad Brooks

I am a fan of the new look. Yes, it resembles Google's look a little too much but it puts better use to the page. I also like the new features. - geekazine

I love the the new design also. It really helps with organization and it's a lot easier than before to keep track of friends (and favorite peeps) while adding even more subscriptions. - m.0

Robert, your feeds are right under the rooms in the right column. - Radek Pilich

well, the only thing i hate is what Scoble said: I have to click on my name to get to my feed, and it's too far on the right. less movement, please! - Zio Bonino

Love it as well - Roberto Bonini

I want to see only items that I've commented on, though. I can't find that in the new design. Is it there? - Robert Scoble

You click on your name, top right, then you select Comments + Likes. Or probably I haven't understood. - Zio Bonino

Robert, it's there. Go to My Feed, Comments + Likes, and then right below that there is a link to show Comments only, Likes only, or both. - Akiva Moskovitz

disagree... maybe it is a free market conservative thing - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

I never saw the old one. - Ron

I agree. New FF design is less effective. - susan mernit

I preferred the tabs in the old design, especially the "Me" tab like Scoble does too. But I do like the group feature and the ability to post a picture. - Winston Teo

the beta seems to be having problems this morning. twice i tried to make a comment only to get an error message. - Ruth Ferguson

I prefer the *features* of the new version. Don't care about the design either way. It's simple, so the only thing to criticise is one's own (un)flexible routine. - Vincent van Wylick

I much prefer the beta, by the way. Haven't gone back to the classic interface since. - Akiva Moskovitz

Beta + 1. - Tanath

it's not called beta.friendfeed.com for nothing maybe not all but some of what's there well get pulled over maybe .. just have to wait and see - JohnBfromMemphis

saw this yesterday. the video is all sorts of funny. the chicken. lol - Cee Bee

I just really want a waffle bike. It's earth friendly AND you can provide a service to others. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

waffles are great. so are crepes. long live france! - Cee Bee