Design smarts. So you installed Ubiquity, you liked it, now what? Watch how great UIs are developed. Two blogs that are now on my must-read list, Jono’s Not The User’s Fault and Aza’s Thoughts. Here’s what you can expect: One of the many reasons that using computers is so annoying is because computers can’t figure out what you mean even when it would be incredibly obvious to a human. …
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Rounded Corners 217 - Reading list
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Rounded Corners 216 - Hug a developer
http://blog.labnotes.org/2008/08/28/rounded-corners-216-hug-a-developer/We can predict the future. Once it happened. From the exaggerated rumors of Steve Job’s demise: (IF STOCK DROPS): The decline is no surprise to investors and analysts, many of whom considered Jobs irreplaceable. Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray & Co. …
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Dumb, and faster, databases
http://blog.labnotes.org/2008/08/23/dumb-and-faster-databases/Experiences like this take me two decades back, when I was introduced to RDBMS as “slower, heavier, but oh so good for …”. Somewhere along the way we lost both qualifications. There’s an ongoing myth that declarative is always faster/better because it lets the software smarts kick in, SQL must …
