Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro
I recently wrote about my philosophy of minimalism that “less is more” with the mantra “when in doubt, leave it out.” I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.” I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web [...]
Wolf Frameworks – Another Contender for the PaaS Crown
The other day I was given a briefing by Sunny Ghosh from Wolf Frameworks. Founded in 2006, WOLF is a 100% browser (Ajax, XML and .NET) based standards compliant, PaaS that is targeting users who need to create mashable and interoperable SaaS Business Applications. Wolf is targeting the SMB market that is resource poor and [...]
Coming Full Circle – Confessions of a Windows Programmer
Let me start this post off by announcing that I am, to all accounts, a programming dinosaur. I started cutting code back when MS-DOS 2.1 was the OS de rigeur. Of course, I then moved ‘up’ into Win32 programming when the wonderful world of GUI interfaces rose to prominence. I clearly remember observing (with smug [...]
Is Google Being Evil? Ajax Search
It seems Google is testing a new AJAX powered search on US Google searches. So what? Well it seems a standard Google search returns the url http://www.google.com/search?q=cloudave when searching for CloudAve. The new search returns http://www.google.com/#q=cloudave. The difference being that standard referral tracking and analytics services don’t see anything after the “#”. The search community [...]
