You know that MUSE video they got going on at adobe muse? Oh man if you can bare it, watch until maybe 80% through (because thats where i stopped).. and then saunter onto the SHOWCASE and checkout their proudest moments of point and click web design.

Use Muse if you want to:

• USE IMAGES FOR YOUR WHOLE WEB PAGE
• DONT SUPPORT DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
• LOOK LIKE SHIT (this is a valid point… just look at them)
• BE SPONSORED BY ADOBE
• TIRED OF IWEB
• WANT TO KILL YOURSELF

I get so bored of hacker/silicon valley/webby news these days originating from the US. I know it’s a bit of a shitfight of hiring and skills but it’s an overload of shitty twitter and +1/Facebook updates. It’s like the politics of cloudynerdups.

Just make some shit will you.

Every once in a while I go through an IDE crisis.. Textmate makes me unproductive but it is still the most powerful but I just can’t get productive in it all the time.

So I’ve been on Netbeans 7.0 which is ALL RIGHT… once I made my own snippets for some simple var_dump()ing etc it was ok. There isn’t much CakePHP support, there is not a lot of general support but it does help me in my coding.

The CPU fan goes nuts which annoys me… on my laptop it heats up and it’s already pretty steamy in Beijing.

On the iMac at work though, it’s got real estate to spare and it’s a joy to use… well, at least I’m productive in it.

Netbeans 7.0

Crystal on the edge.