The fundamentals of Portal usability seem to have gone unchanged in recent years, according to Jakob Nielson of the Nielson Norman Group. Back in 2002 NNg did an Intranet Portal usability study to pinpoint best practices and lessons learned in portal design. The report, which I HIGHLY recommend purchasing if you have anything […]
…that most techies know the primary colors are Red, Green, and Blue, but artists know the primary colors are Red, Yellow, and Blue? The reason why comes down to the differences of chemistry versus physiology.
The human eye has three types of receptor cones, each one being sensitive to a different band of light. The […]
The uber-geekiness came through this weekend as I finally finished the two little geek projects that I have been trying to find time to do. First, the weather for Buffalo is now delivered to this page by my weather plugin, and second is the introduction of the Buffalo snow-meter. You may think it is a […]
Why would you want to do this? Why not? In my case, I just go tired of all the free services that provide this data going down for extended periods. That, and the uber-geeky desire to know how it was computed. I use this same code, translated to PHP, for my new […]
…that there are 420,000 lines of code in the program that runs the space shuttle? This software never crashes, it never needs rebooting, and it is the closest thing to bug-free that humans could ever imagine.
The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have […]
Fresh on the heals of his recent publishing of 2005’s top ten web design mistakes, Jakob Nielson has now put out the Top Ten Blog Design Mistakes. As usual, Jakob puts things into words better than I possibly could.
In a nutshell, the Top Ten Blog Design Mistakes are:
1. No Author Biographies: Anonymous = less credible
2. […]
My Netflix queue is now included on my sidebar for no apparent reason outside of the fact that I am a geek. I wish I could precede the word “geek” with other words like “1337″, or “uber” but I did not even write the code to grab the RSS feed. That was provided by […]
…that one person holds the distinction for being the most destructive engineer of all time? He was not a weapons engineer, or a military man, but an engineer with a penchant for chemistry.
There are a host of bad chemicals that we pump into our atmosphere and some, like lead, will never really leave us. […]
I mentioned a while back that I was handling some development overflow around the office and I got stuck trying to convert a Notes app to the browser, where no forethought for this contingency had been used by the developers. There are a hundred things, about doing this type of conversion, that I hate, […]
I recently posted about talking back XML from Domino apps since I had never had to use the R6 LotusScript parser classes that Domino now has. In the same spirit, I thought I would post on how to parse inbound XML using the same classes.
Traditionally, most Domino developers used the Request_Content property/field to […]