233 posts from 2006
Alright, so this post has nothing to do with UI Design, but it has everything to do with Experience (yeah, with a capital ‘E’). That is, it has everything to do with the Developer Experience. You see, developers create software. With tasty, lickab...
Ray Ozzie, the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, has an interesting demo of “webifying” the clipboard on his blog. The so-called Live Clipboard allows a user to interact with rich data on a webpage in a fashion that is much more akin to a tra...
Mike Ash, a developer at Rogue Amoeba, published an article a while back about subclassing the Cocoa class NSCell in a way that doesn’t make you want to stab your eyeballs with a pen. Having suffered through a lot of this with iRooster, I recogniz...
Adam Greenfield, Aaron Gustafson, Jason Santa Maria, Khoi Vinh, Eric Meyer, and Jeffrey Zeldman are coming to Seattle for a two-day web design conference. It starts September 18th at the Bell Harbor conference center, just down the street from the...
Sara Ford, formerly the de facto head of Accessibility testing for all of Visual Studio (and a Black Belt in Karate, so don’t mess with her), published a handy-dandy utility for verifying the correctness of common MSAA properties and roles on GotD...
According to CNN, Haley Joel Osment (18 years old, now…creepy) was in a car accident a few days ago. Supposedly he hit a brick pillar in his 1995 Saturn (?!?).
An article from Business Week discusses the innovation going into PCs for the Windows Vista timeframe. My opinion? It’s about damned time. Why is it that we have to settle for dull, ugly, oversized beige hunks of plastic when the competition has s...
As everyone and their mother probably knows, now, Microsoft is planning on releasing an iPod competitor in time for Christmas 2006. According to Engadget, Zune is actually the name of the brand and the device, and there are, supposedly, more Zune ...
I am a huge, huge, huge advocate of correctly supporting mnemonics and keyboard shortcuts throughout your application. It was, for this reason, that I was very excited when I first learned that you could do the exact same thing for web pages. Mova...
I just found this on YouTube: it’s a video of a new feature with unintended consequences in the video game, MLB 2k6. Basically, a player can jump up to the top of a stadium wall to catch a ball that would otherwise be a home run. Unfortunately, th...
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