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Oct 23, 2006
Web Design

Are you Web 2.0 enough?

So, the guys from 30secondrule.com were apparently sitting around… commenting on how so many people are talking Web 2.0 this and Web 2.0 that, and while so doing these people point out one or a dozen sites or features or hacks, yet it’s still near...

Oct 22, 2006
Customers and Community

Bingo!

I just found a fantastic blog entry on user experience bingo. Ever seen bullshit bingo? Same thing, except with Ux terms. As the author of these bingo cards, Mark DeHoog, puts it, I seem to hear this cry from so many in many leadership or industry...

Oct 21, 2006
Ajax

Atlas, the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions

Scott Guthrie, the General Manager of the .NET Developer Platform team, has a fantastic video up on the ASP.NET website that demos some of the cool features in the ASP.NET AJAX toolset, formerly known as Atlas. At the risk of sounding sycophantic,...

Oct 20, 2006
Design

Greek Toilets

From Greek Island Notes: For some incomprehensible reason, sewer pipes in Greece are of such small calibre that toilet paper invariably clogs them up causing a calamitous backup of sewage. So, instead of being dropped into the pan, used toilet pap...

Oct 20, 2006
Vista

What' up with Aero Basic?

An article on shell revealed goes into a great deal of depth about why the Windows Vista Aero Basic theme looks the way it does. Why does Aero have a solid 1-pixel black border inside the frame, and Aero Basic doesn't? Because the DWM is ren...