- Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Future-Proofing A Design
Quote: Premature generality is expensive. Designing code to be future-proof without a clear understanding of what the future holds often leads to excess generality; generality has very real costs, and they might be higher than the benefit accrued.
(categories: software programming architecture change future-proofing ) - Charlie Owen – Success Factors for Program Managers from Joe Belfiore
Maniacally focus on building a product your customers will love.
(categories: software design microsoft management leadership )
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Links: 1-18-2009
- Techpaulogy: Analyst Report Hits the Wires – Congrats to Jive!
And that was based on the product last year. Just wait until 2009.
(categories: clearspace jive 2008 forresterwave analysts )
Links: 1-6-2009
- Anatomy of a Software Development Role: Development Manager
Great series (thanks Gato!) on the roles / titles of a software development organization.
(categories: software development management roles ) - Encouraged Commentary | DontTrustThisGuy.com
Cool commenting UX ideas.
(categories: ux ui javascript comments interaction commenting ) - Constellation Roamer | Asterisq.com
$550 gets you a force directed graph in SWF format that you can throw an XML file at.
(categories: infoviz visualization socialnetworks flash socialviz ) - Painfully Obvious → Blog Archive → Paginate THIS
Love the attention to detail. Need to do more exercises like this at Jive.
(categories: ui design pagination ux )
Links: 12-24-2008
- Rands In Repose: A Signature Cadence
Quote: "This conversational tone has a purpose. By sounding like a human, these small wording decisions push the technology out of the way to reveal what we really care about: the people."
(categories: ux language usability people voice ) - Alex Payne | Life As A Series of Queues
Quote: "My suspicion is that there’s a market in making each and every one of those queues smaller, if not making them disappear entirely." Bigger market: being able to prioritize across queues.
(categories: data productivity queueing queue ) - Quick Turnaround Usability Testing, Part II – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Good stuff on usability testing.
(categories: ux ui process testing usability usability-testing ) - Web-Based UML Sequence Diagram / MSC Generator
Big fan of the napkin style.
(categories: graph visualization programming tools utilities )
Links: 12-23-2008
- Rooms – The Sacred Vault at Peter Luger Steak House – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
mmmm…. porterhouse.
(categories: food steak porterhouse nyc )
Links: 12-16-2008
- tap tap tap ~ 10 useful iPhone tips & tricks
Some cool tips for iPhone users.
(categories: iphone tips )
Links: 12-6-2008
Links: 11-24-2008
- Will the Real Information Architect Please Stand Up? – SlideShare
Fun preso explaining IA. Sounds similar to what we’re thinking of as functional design @ Jive.
(categories: information architecture presentation ia ) - Shaq on Twitter
No really.
(categories: shaquillerashaunoneal twitter shaq ) - Values of n Blog: A fork in the road
Stikkit and I Want Sandy go offline, Rael goes to twitter.
(categories: twitter raeldornfest stikkit iwantsandy email )
Links: 11-23-2008
- vonnegutSTYLE – How to Write With Style
1. Find a subject you care about, 2. Do not ramble, though, 3. Keep it simple, 4. Have guts to cut, 5. Sound like yourself, 6. Say what you mean,
(categories: writing style language vonnegut ) - Data Management, Facebook-style | 20bits
Fascinating presentation by a former Facebook employee
(categories: scaling scalability performance facebook hadoop cassandra )
Links: 11-21-2008
- SVNSearch: Subversion
Nice looking subversion repository browser, I really like the activity infographics: muted but informative.
(categories: visualization svn subversion development )