Respect.
Respect is something humans give to each other through personal connection. It’s the bond that forms when we recognize something—or someone—as significant, relatable, or worthy of care. This connection doesn’t have to be limited to people.
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Linux ready for the desktop? Show me productivity first.
ZDNet has an article titled Linux Ready for the Desktop. While I do enjoy Ubuntu quite a bit (at least on one desktop) and I would never doubt the usefulness of Linux on a wide variety of machines, my concerns over open source systems have become more widespread with issues about forks. Linux is certainly … Read more
Dealing with Font Sizes
Andy Kramek offers some great samples of identifying how long a string can be in a particular font. This is something that every UI designer needs to consider when dealing with screen design. While many VFP developers will use FONTMETRIC and TXTWIDTH, Andy has wrapped it all into a fairly easy function to call. Check … Read more
A New Year…A New Month…A New Technology…
I have (first correction – thanks Matt!) been pulling together links for a larger “start of the year” post and decided to scale it back and try something a bit different. The various sites that AKSEL manages will be going through a “re-branding” exercise in the near future but one of my goals this year … Read more
Usability: Learning New Environments
I realized how quiet I’ve been here and while I have a number of posts waiting in draft, I’ve been so busy it’s been impossible to complete them. But I did want to post this after I dealt with it yesterday. I’ve been on an ASP.Net contract now for about 3 months which is an … Read more
Do you Scale?
Great post by Dare, Scalability: I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Does following up on a post from Scott Loganbill at Google about their choice of “scalable” services. Scalability is a funny question. Every application is designed to handle a certain type of architecture – it’s usually one of those fundamental … Read more
Say No to Feature Creep
Chris Saad has a great post over on his blog: Leadership includes saying no « Paying Attention Not sure if he just went through a specific scenario to inspire the posting but it’s a great read, especially for technical managers. One of my clients had a problem: they have a list of over 397 enhancement … Read more
Dynamic Languages Strike Back
Garrett pointed over to this post Stevey’s Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back which is really a transcript of a speech Steve Yegge gave at Stanford. Very interesting read/video whichever you prefer. When reading about half way through (I’ve marked to come back to but it’s definitely a good read) , I immediately thought of … Read more
Quick VFP Developer Shortcut: Tables into clipboards
Developers create a lot of little “snippets” that help them in a lot of different scenarios. Some of them evolve into larger tools; others turn into hidden gems that get shared among a small select few. (hmmm….SET TANGENT ON ….sounds like an interesting idea for a VFPX project – a snippet sharer – damn! don’t … Read more
Funny UI Decisions
I’ve been reading KC almost since I started using an RSS (when I grabbed a bunch of the earliest MS bloggers and aggregated them) – and many of her posts are enlightening, some very informational (this is someone who has moved around MS quite a bit in different areas) and some just funny – like … Read more