Jakob Nielson’s Alertbox has been one of the best sites on web usability for many, many years. A recent post does a nice job of showing just how pointless it is to argue in a meeting about what design is probably the best.
testing just 2 users per design reduced the probability of being wrong [...]
Last year Dave Weiner did a great job of defining what makes for good blogging. The criteria don’t just apply to blogging, but any writing in general.
People talking about things they know about, not just expressing opinions about things they are not experts in (nothing wrong with that, of course).
Of course, Joel Spolsky, who [...]
It takes a while to read, but it’s very much worth it. If you still think you should be writing your own crypto code, or even using native crypto libraries, you are DOING IT WRONG.
P.S. Same goes for parsers! Learn to use ANTLR or any other of the hundreds of parser generators out [...]
I was trying to get eclipse to install an update and it just wouldn’t do it. Specifically the m2eclipse plugin. I kept getting errors about being unable to fix a dependency.
“maven eclipse can not find a solution 3.4.2.M20090204-0800″
Turns out several things help. 1) turn on every site as an available update site, [...]
So much truth in art
Comic: If Architecture Was Like Software.
