Joel Spolsky on Usability in One Easy Step
I don’t like to post a link to someone else’s blog or web site without having a good reason. Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software and the popular Joel on Software web site recently posted about usability. His post goes hand-in-hand with my post about product complexity from yesterday.
Complexity causes 50% of product returns
This is an interesting article I came across. You should get the jist from the title. I think this applies to software as much as products. Too many companies try to jam as much functionality into a piece of software that it becomes too bulky and complex which results in...
New discovery - ObjectView Magazine
I don’t know if I am late to the party or not but I just discovered an online magazine called ObjectView. The magazine is distributed as PDF files and is targeted toward hard core developers.
37Signals finally Getting Real
37Signals has finally released their “Getting Real” book in PDF format. I have been waiting for this book since I had heard about it a couple months ago. The price for the download is $19.
Starting to use AJAX
The current project I am working on is an ASP.NET (C# 2.0) application that is a specialized eCommerce system.
What will be new in Rails 1.1
I found this great overview from Scott Raymond about what is coming in the new Rails 1.1 release.
Application_Start not firing and the Global.asax
I am working on a project in which we converted an existing Visual Studio 2003 C# web application to Visual Studio 2005. I can and probably post a series of entries on all of the issues we faced converting this project but that is for another time. The converted application...
Axosoft Giving away $500 Version of Software for $5!
Axosoft is doing a social marketing experiment where they’re selling a $500 copy of their OnTime Small Team bug tracker and project management tool for just $5 and donating the proceeds to the American Red Cross. The experiment expires Friday. read more?
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Using ActiveState Komodo IDE
In my continuing effort to find a decent Ruby IDE under Windows or Mac OSX I decided to try the Ruby IDE from ActiveState known as Komodo. This is an IDE geared toward dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP and Python. Only until recently has it supported Ruby. The install...
Rails rant on Joel on Software Forums
I am a frequent reader of Joel on Software. I am also very intent on learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails for as a way to write new software. There is an interesting post, I mean rant, over on the JOS site about one developers experience recently with Rails. I...