A lot has been going on in the last few months. I just completed an exciting, international project for a large New York bank. I’m just starting a working relationship with an extremely cool consulting firm in Grand Rapids. I’ve been dealing with some enriching changes at home, and I’ve even started practicing violin again. […]
Joel Spolsky has been kind enough to put an example of a real live software spec from a real live - and completed - project on his site. What a boon for developers who care about this sort of thing.
Thanks, Joel!
After a google search for “Tom Sawyer Principle”, I learned that this thought isn’t entirely original. Regardless, it’s a good thought:
The Tom Sawyer Principle in my words:
Getting people to pay you to let them do something you want them to do anyway
Anybody else notice that all these car companies are essentially just eliminating their “employee discount” when they offer it to everybody?
My newphew Brett and my dad performed Abbott and Costello’s Who’s on First for the school talent show today. It went great!
For those willing to download an 8 megabyte file, here’s a video.
For those willing to download a 40 megabyte file, here’s a higher quality version of the same video.
Note: for those with highly up-to-date […]
Well I’m going to buy FogBugz. As I mentioned, I’ve started using it, and it brings significant advantages. We’ll see how it goes.
I just started using del.icio.us as well. While not quite as life changing as Google Search History, this site is pretty cool. I browse to a LOT of sites through the course of my work, and the better ones I want to remember. The bookmarklet feature makes it as convenient as adding a favorite.
del.icio.us is […]
http://www.google.com/searchhistory/
This will make my life so much better. This is HUGE.
The links to RSS feeds at the bottom of the page were broken. I fixed them.
I also changed some wording from the default WordPress template - instead of “No Comments” for posts on the front page, I changed it to “Leave a Comment”. That makes it a bit more obvious that it’s a link. […]
So what’s a “first class user interface construct”? I’ll show you a perfect example in Google’s new gmail.
First some background. I’ve tried many, many webmail systems, and I actively use at least six for various purposes (Yahoo, MSN, gmail, fastmail, Outlook Web Access (OWA), and the free Linux ones). They all have their strengths […]