Here’s an interesting thing, how long does an interruption really take? I’m looking at this primarily from the point of view of a developer.
Working on code is generally a hyper-focused task. I usually find that what I’m doing is writing the code according to a mental model of the program that I’ve constructed. When I [...]
A subject which I’ve been wrestling with for a while now is this whole ASP.Net vs PHP thing. I’ve been a .Net developer for years now and before that I worked primarily in ASP (vbscript). But recently I’ve grown more interested in experimenting with PHP. At a recent conference, a Microsoft representative asked me why [...]
… designing ways to manage an application.
It’s a subject that I’ve broached before, but I still get uncomprehending looks from developers when I explain that an application management interface should be as simple as (if not simpler than) the user facing interface.
Many developers have a blind spot when it comes to this, let’s take the [...]
Like Lohan straight out of this week’s rehab, a web app can look rough first thing. Andrew Berkowitz knows this and takes us through five iterations of a single screen of web app Teamsnap, as it blossoms from “ugly and unusable” to “just feels right”.
A nice peek into the design process behind a web application. [...]
Today I was setting up a product blog for bcToolkit and in order to save time and effort, I decide to create the blog on Blogger. This blog runs on blogger but is hosted on my own server so I’m restricted to the classic templates which get converted into static html and FTP‘ed to my [...]
