December 2, 2006 – 1:08 pm
I’ve been playing around with Ajax start pages today. I plan to review the more popular ones for Web Worker Daily or perhaps just write some sort of feature article about using them, but so far I’ve just felt frustrated by them. They are so far from doing what I want.
The three I’m trying so […]
November 7, 2006 – 6:20 pm
Ten years from now, let’s see if I’m right: the browser is where our apps will live, not on the desktop. The browser will be extended to give us offline connectivity and access to desktop resources. The browser and its context provides what we need for mobile access. The browser is where it’s at, not […]
November 7, 2006 – 11:11 am
London-based Flow Interactive is running a project for World Usability Day (November 14th) called Making Life Easy. They invite you to submit examples of things that make life easy and things that don’t. If you’re really motivated, get out and put a red balloon on the best and worst examples of usability you can find, […]
September 24, 2006 – 8:04 pm
Effective software development requires attention to design tradeoffs. You can’t get everything you want all at once. For example, sometimes it’s better to use flat files for data storage instead of a DBMS. Yes, databases give you all sorts of nice features: structured data, transaction control, easy querying and analysis, better protection against data corruption. […]
I have a couple projects on my plate that call for more than a personal publishing platform like WordPress, so I’m evaluating open-source web content management systems. This white paper from Seth Gottlieb of Optaros is invaluable in getting oriented in that space.
These are the basic requirements for the first project, a community website with […]
I picked the fspring WordPress theme by Fredrik Fahlstad for its beauty, not its function. The two main problems I’ve discovered so far with this theme are (1) it’s not very legible, especially on a Mac or for readers without super-sharp vision and (2) the font size is set to an absolute pixel value. So […]
I’m late to this particular usability party, but I just realized in converting to WordPress that permalinks are part of the user interface of a website. It didn’t initially seem problematic to me to mindlessly stick “.html” as the suffix to every WordPress permalink so as to get a little backward compatibility with my Blogger […]
Leisa Reichelt of disambiguity feels annoyed by US spelling such as “internationalization” versus “internationalisation” or “localization” versus “localisation.” I offered a geeky alternative: I18N and L10N. Don’t we all speak the language of numbers? Back in my enterprisey days at Oracle, we used I18N almost exclusively in our extensive written spec and design documents on […]
January 30, 2006 – 1:53 pm
What I liked best about Scoble’s “I am not an edge case!” declaration is how it encodes a deep respect for others’ needs and capabilities. He doesn’t set himself apart like you might expect from someone of his renown. Scoble’s manifesto reminds me of a comment made on Alex Barnett’s podcast about attention by one […]
