In a software company, deciding which one of a big pile of conflicting priorities to work on next is one of the hardest things to get right. And it is critical to the business: If your process for doing this works, you end up with products that your customers and…
I’m often asked why I prefer to use Ajax HTML rather than XML or JSON etc. There are multiple reasons I cite, one is it’s easier to maintain but the more important one is that it’s faster and less work (both on the frontend and the backend).
Here’s…
Originally I was going to comment on Allan’s excellent summary of our new provenance features, but it turned into a post in its own right. Whilst I think that the features provided by provenance will clearly be of use during pattern development I think they have wider scope than…
I recently discovered Google Reader, and it has changed how I interact with the web in general, and blogs in particular. As it becomes more widely used, I expect it to have even more of an impact.
In principle, the Reader is a simple aggregator of RSS…
Allan wrote about Rethinking the Home Page and my response was getting to0 long to be a comment so I’m writing it as a post.
Allan said:
Today, visitors typically visit web sites as a result of a search or a deep…
Back when the web was young, the home page was where most visitors to a web site would start and therefore it got the most attention. Is this still a valid way of thinking today?
Today, visitors typically visit web sites as a result of a search or…
We happened upon a very interesting Opera quirk at work today!
A developer decided to add an @import link to a non-existent CSS file that would be included at a later date. During testing we saw some interesting results with the page rendering, things being positioned in the…
Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Phillip Mayes (though I prefer Phil) and I’m a Technical Consultant for Tideway Systems. I’m writing what I hope will be the first of many entries sharing my experiences about what I do for Tideway, the challenges I face and the…
A very interesting report was published in February which analysed Vistas, XPs and Mac OSXs usability by Pfeifer Consulting, which did some very detailed analysis of the Mac and Windows UI. It conculded that (naturally) OSX was the superior UI, but also that Vista/Aero is worse than XP!
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The following point was part of a comment posted in response to my last article:
the single menu at the top of the screen is more confusing than helpful,
I’d like to comment on this as it is a common “issue” that Mac-o-phobes quote when trying to…
