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Guido van Rossum unveiled his first Google project, Mondrian, tonight during a Python tech talk at the Google campus in Mountain View. Mondrian is a web-based code review system built on top of a Perforce and BigTable backend with a Python-powered front-end. Mondrian is a pretty impressive system and is currently in use across Google.
Link.
(Guido van Rossum is the creator of the Python language).
Yahoo! revamped their TV listings site, and got a whole load of negative feedback:
Sensible design and ease of use trump flashy websites any day of the week. Of all the AJAXed sites I use, the best still have to be Gmail and Google Maps. Mind you having said that, I’m starting to feel a bit of clunkiness in the Gmail UI. To be fair, I’m probably on the power user end of the scale, and am getting a bit too tag happy for my own good.
Of course, this would never be a problem with a rich client app .
As for Google Maps, mouse wheel zooming is just wrong. For every other website the mouse wheel is used to scroll around the page. Hit Google Maps and that behaviour flies out the window. Annoying and inconsistent. Googlers, make it stop.