I’ve been using a computer daily since the early 1990s, and inevitably some parts of my body have reacted badly to this. My right wrist started hurting sometime in the 2000s, and last year that pain extended further up my arm. RSI had become a problem that I needed to […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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Essential reading for any UI designer, this is a thorough and highly useful foray into different screen patterns. A Collection of Screen Patterns (posted from ZooTool).
The challenge is to come up with a way of marking out the importance of a bug, without having to spend time thinking about important levels. A simple one to five or one to ten system is quite vague, and one person’s 4 is another person’s 2. So numbers aren’t […]
The last year has seen me take on the management of a few Linux servers, and ditch my Windows PCs for Linux too. There’s been a lot to learn, and it’s not all been fun – sometimes it has been intensely frustrating. However, overall it has been extremely positive. On […]
The moment a problem is observed by a second developer, the ease with which the problem is solved becomes inversely proportional to the time already spent trying to solve it.
When Rasmus Lerdorf first put PHP together, he – quite sensibly, despite his heritage – chose not to write it in Greenlandic or Danish. Good job too – that would have been rather unpleasant to work with. He opted instead, being in Canada at the time, for the local tongue. […]