What the world needs now is Croons, sweet Croons
03.01.10 - 11:42pm
Looks like we just did a big publicity push for Croon My Tune. Everybody should go check it out.
http://croonmytune.com
or read about it here: http://jumpcanopy.com/?p=21
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_method in recent rails is brokenish
02.28.10 - 02:14pm
I was trying to pass in _method: 'put' as part of a json body and for some reason rails kept not realizing that I wanted to put.
Then I came across this article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1249282/set-method-to-put-in-rails-xml-requests
So... if you're using prototype your "put" methods look something like this:
PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:
new Ajax.Request(url, {
onSuccess: [...]
Game Theory
02.23.10 - 08:31am
Wii Games - E3 2010 - Guitar Hero 5
You can skip the last 10 minutes or so when he dives into this odd crazy future... but the beginning part really makes you think about how you can add game theory to any business you're in. I really like the idea of experience points and [...]
Excellent UXMatters artice: “First, Do No Harm”
11.16.09 - 02:31pm
First, Do No Harm :: UXmatters
Being able to make the necessary tradeoffs between conflicting constraints takes skill. I’ve always viewed constraints as my friends. They make me more creative. By thoroughly understanding the limitations that constrain a design solution, I can make the right tradeoffs and come up with the best design solution possible under [...]
Seth Godin lists the questions to ask before building a website
09.18.09 - 12:25pm
Seth's Blog: Things to ask before you redo your website
I think these are perhaps the tenth and eleventh questions you should ask, not the first two. Here's my list of difficult and important questions you have to answer before you spend a nickel:
Boxes and Arrows: Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design
03.02.09 - 06:23pm
Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design - Boxes and Arrows
We did not find any correlation with user satisfaction and those teams with the most specialized team members, one way or the other: some teams with the most specialization did well, and some teams did poorly. What we did consistently observe among teams that had high [...]
Free git training course
03.01.09 - 04:53pm
h/t to Ruby Flow:
Rubylearning.com is offering a free git and github training course. I don't have any personal experience with RubyLearning, but I hear good things and it might be a good introductory course for anyone that is just getting used to git.
http://rubylearning.com/blog/2009/02/10/git-and-github-a-free-course/
Beauty is the most important thing in software.
01.07.09 - 07:02pm
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
David Gelernter, Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology
Amen. Amen.
I hate it when people use the argument: "but this worked."
h/t: A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Pownce is shutting down
12.02.08 - 11:34am
http://www.sixapart.com/pownce/pro.html
People are saying this was a twitter rival. I think their product
could have been great with a slight twist on marketing - making it for
"small group file and links sharing" rather than micro-blogging...
they already had the features - but didn't push it in that direction.
Letting users know about OpenID
10.15.08 - 02:48pm
Yahoo recently did some research on OpenID. The results were pretty poor, but I'm not surprised.
I think the big problem with OpenID right now is that we're all thinking about it like geeks. The main benefit to the user is that he/she doesn't have to sign up for yet another account - or give [...]