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My name is Aaron Johnson and I created this blog both for me (mostly) and sometimes you. I've been saving mydeliciouspinboard.in links here and blogging since 2002. During the week (and at night and some weekends and well.. most of the time), I work in engineering at Jive Software. When I'm not working, I'm hanging out with my amazing wife, ourdinosaurStar Wars loving son and four chickens in the burbs outside of Portland, Oregon.See Also
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Category Archives: Interface Design
Pancake People
But today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available”. A new self that needs to … Continue reading
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RSS, Processing Instructions and Firefox 2.0
A couple weeks ago I posted an article that describes how you can use XML stylesheets with ROME to create RSS / Atom feeds that are ‘user friendly’ (like the ones that FeedBurner produces). Firefox 2.0, released just this past … Continue reading
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XSL / CSS Processing Instructions using ROME
Have you seen the way that the smart guys at FeedBurner display RSS feeds in a browser (here’s a sample if you haven’t)? If you’re like me, the first time you see a feed they manage, you’ll probably think that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Interface Design, J2EE, Syndication, XML
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WebWork and meaningful URLs
Personal pet peeve: meaningful URLs (which tonight I found out go by many names: pretty URLs, RESTian URLs, SES URLs, hackable URLs, etc…). At work, we use WebWork extensively but up until this point we haven’t made an effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Content Management, Interface Design, Open Source, WebWork
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Transparent PNG Charts with JFreeChart
If you’re one of the 3 people in the world that need to create a transparent PNG image using JFreeChart, you’ve come to the right place: JFreeChart chart = ChartFactory.createXYBarChart(…); chart.setBackgroundPaint(new Color(255,255,255,0)); … KeypointPNGEncoderAdapter encoder = new KeypointPNGEncoderAdapter(); encoder.setEncodingAlpha(true); encoder.encode(chart.createBufferedImage(width, … Continue reading
Posted in Interface Design, J2EE
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Adaptive Path interview with Jared Spool: how to ask questions
Great story from an interview that Adapative Path’s Peter Merholz did with the founder of User Interface Engineering Jared Spool: PM: Any other mistakes, in terms of how tests are structured? JS: There are many problems I see in terms … Continue reading
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Shallow comparison of ASP.NET to Flex
Flex seems pretty interesting when you realize how similar it is to something like ASP.NET. Look how similar this snippet of Flex: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”iso-8859-1″?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml”> <mx:script> function copy() { destination.text=source.text } </mx:script> <mx:TextInput id=”source” width=”100″/> <mx:Button label=”Copy” click=”copy()”/> … Continue reading
Web pages you can speak to and gesture at
Couple guys from my work are going to this W3C seminar tomorrow. If you’re in Boston, come on down, should be fascinating! On a related note, my friend Joe worked at Lobby7 (which makes a multimodal application server) for a … Continue reading
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When good interfaces go crufty
When good interfaces go crufty [slashdot]
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