MAS o Menos

ArtLung posted code he wrote back in 2002 that he would never write today. The great thing about the web is it is a living document. Change the pixels and the old problem goes away. Mess up a haircut and it may take weeks (or months) to recover. Mess up a bridge and you’ll be stuck with your error for fifty years.

Recently I made a commitment to go back and fix all the old content on INeedCoffee. That means getting in the time travel machine and going back to April 1999. Over the last 8.5 years I’ve learned a few things about coffee, HTML and photos. Looking at some of the early articles is kind of like looking at my artwork from grade school. I cringe. It’ll take a few months, but over time I expect the content from 1999 to have the same consistent look as the content from 2007.

One article that was driving me crazy was Cafe Cubano (Cuban Coffee). It was originally designed from a dial-up modem connection and so the images were very small. I just finished rebuilding this article, which included actually making Cuban Coffee. Below is the old photo with a hideous frame (that is not used anywhere else on the site) and the new one I took this afternoon.

Of course I can already hear the snickering of my photography guru friends. They probably think the new photo is awful. In a few years if my photos look as good as the ones in this article, then I’ll return to this article and have a second Do Over. Like I said, the web is a living document.

Legacy Comments

Joe

It’s all about Kaizen — continuous quality improvement.

Maybe not daily, but consistently.

Keep at it MAS!

MAS

I just finished reading a book on Kaizen. Wow!

Chris

I have had a Kaizen poster at all my cubicles for years.

I am a QA analyst, so I love Kaizen.

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