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Picking a Real World Release Dates. I've worked in big software companies, teeny tiny small software companies and worked with software companies all over the globe. And one thing remains constant: we all screw up release dates with the regularity of snow at the North Pole. I have to think that a big part of… Continue reading Picking a Real World Release Dates

The Law of Leaky Abstractions. TCP is a way to transmit data that is reliable. By this I mean: if you send a message over a network using TCP, it will arrive, and it won't be garbled or corrupted. We use TCP for many things like fetching web pages and sending email. The reliability of… Continue reading The Law of Leaky Abstractions

The Marriage of Stewart and Jesse.. My post on extending Jesse's elements of user experience , and assigning intervals of longevity, fired a connection to Stewart Brand's brilliant How Buildings Learn , wherein he identifies the 6 layers of buildings, all which happen to begin with S … [peterme.com]

Why VPN When You Can SSL?. Neoteris is upgrading its browser-based application for remote users on the corporate LAN, giving IT managers more flexibility to manage access to the network. [Internet Product News]

Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping. Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping – Defining requirements and features can be a daunting task under the best of circumstances. The Vision Prototype allows the user-centered vision to be seen—and discussed—by all team members and then easily translated into a set of functional requirements. [Boxes and Arrows] [ia/ – news… Continue reading Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping

Spanking Jakob. John S. Rhodes reviews Jakob's latest Alertbox, Intranet Usability: The Trillion-Dollar Question”. [ia/ – news for information architects]

Patterns For Personal Websites and Design of Sites book. A few design pattern resources gleaned from WebWord. The first is a site by Mark L. Irons that collects patterns for creating personal Web sites. The second is the book, “The Design of Sites: Patterns, principles and processes for crafting a customer-centered web experience”, by D.… Continue reading Patterns For Personal Websites and Design of Sites book

Macromedia announces Contribute.  Desktop software for editing static HTML sites. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Get libraries up to date. – “Students are shortchanged when school libraries don't get the support they need.” “A school library should be more than a room with books in it.” “Unless every school has a library — commonly called a media center — filled with interesting, up-to-date, useful material, the students aren't getting the… Continue reading Get libraries up to date

Moveable Type is easy to install, however getting perl DBI to talk to MySQL is impossible. Perhaps I'll just abandon the idea of using MySQL with MT. [DesignWeenie]