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Libraries, network-services, virtual machines, platforms and frameworks, all qualify under the umbrella term "API". Some are simp...

Seen recently on a mailing-list I receive: > These guys stock 29mm Crown Caps http://www.africancork.co.za Went off to take a look at...

This is a small call for help. I am looking for work, and need your help. Contract or permanent. Preferably (but not exclusively or even a...

Where you are dependant upon somebody else's API, decouple from that API at the earliest possible opportunity so that the remainder of y...

Background I am about to take on the leadership of a new, still-in-formation developer team, on a project - the first of several - of crit...

For your entertainment and delectation, I offer up a small write-up in which I muse about complexity and simplicity in the tools we choose ...

Random musing on UI misdesign A particular egregious error (seen in websites too numerous to list) is to validate a form, rejecting some f...

I love this quote by E. A. Vander Veer in " Why Does Facebook Keep Redesigning? " typically users aren't considered at all whe...

"System Design, is one that as a profession we talk about less than I believe we should. It is, in many ways, the most important and m...

If Word Processors are to Words as Food Processors are to Food.... no wonder they're so bloody awful to use!

I have come to view coding as the act of exploring and charting unknown territory -- the wilderness of our cognitive space. If we let it, ...

Just received my Instructor's Manual (only a week late!) for Sun's SL-425 " Architecting and Designing J2EE Applications ...

Having just finished my banking and tax admin for the month, I fire up the bank's online system to fork the money over to the various la...

Here's a great quote from Jim Waldo , courtesy of Dan Creswell's Blitz blog : …Even worse than not being visible to the customer, ...

"The Ark was built by one man. The Titanic was built by a team of professionals."

This article by Mr Mirchandani gets it exactly right: UI again ...don't pretty up, destroy! I have never forgotten the experience of ear...

For a while now I've been working (slowly) on a new web application; the details are unimportant; I'll talk about the specifics in ...

Just as much as some software is a pain in the arse to work with (even though it may be totally essential) on the other side of the coin we...

Isn't it peculiar?  Some pieces of software are actually an almost physical pleasure to use.  Others make one actively angry .  Or is th...

Zoli has an entertaining little anecdote over on his blog about how users cannot disable the startup sound in the current (beta) release of...