You’d think replacing a magnetic board with a digital system would be a good thing, wouldn’t you? Well, not if you get the “user interface” completely wrong…
Category Archives: Rant
Programming is like a bad analogy
The joy of programming can be a difficult thing to describe. I take a look at some of the bizarre things people have compared it to.
TwitterVision: How Twitter transformed TV
How has Twitter transformed the act of watching TV?
The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer
Programmers are notoriously bad at creating good user interfaces. How can you tell if your app was designed by a programmer? (Hint: it’s easy).
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Static libraries are Evil
In my opinion.
Why? Well, because it’s too easy to use them as an excuse for not defining your shared library interfaces properly.
The reason this is on my mind recently is that several hundred, yes, you heard that right, several hundred DLLs have been released by my group over the last, ooh, 10 years or so. [...]
Back from the brink…
<sigh> After the attack of the incompetent hosts (1&1). Previous content should be restored shortly.
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