Archive for October, 2007

What It’s Like To Be A Usability Geek

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I gladly admit that I’m a usability geek, which means that sometimes, the most important things for me may be small and insignificant for others. I encounter this every day. Here are two examples from today. Our new dvd recorder at home is not very intuitive to use so normally I control it when our […]

Setting Up Subversion Externals With TortoiseSVN

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Just a tip I spent some time on figuring out: Found information today on how to use TortoiseSVN to manage svn:externals. I’m working on a big project where we need many different branches and parts to use the same css and images libraries throughout all subprojects. I had to Google to get the information on […]

Firefox Tip For Framebuster JavaScript

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I have for long been struggling with an internal legacy application that wraps the content page in a frameset. Very annoying because I have spent some time to reverse engineer a poor-mans API to the application. Problem: An inline “reverse” framebuster script that makes sure that everything is nicely(?) wrapped in the frameset. As you […]

Google Power Tool for Webmasters

Friday, October 19th, 2007 by Thomas Watson Steen

If you run a blog or any other website for that matter, you might want to check out Google Webmaster Central – in particular their Google Webmaster Tool – if you haven’t already seen it. Google Webmaster Tool is a great tool for webmasters who want to see and manage how Google crawls their site(s). […]

Happy 2nd birthday

Sunday, October 14th, 2007 by Thomas Watson Steen

Today is a great day. At least if you ask Jesper and my self. I just got a call from Jesper who was out shopping with his family, wishing me a happy birthday. Today it’s exactly two years ago that we postet our first post on Justaddwater.dk and we are still going strong. We would […]

Web Site Investigation Toolbox Update

Friday, October 12th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

bookmarlets.png I figured the original bookmarklet toolbox needed an update. Added Quirksmode detection, layout grid and updated PageInfo to accept framed pages.

Lenovo Power Supply Almost Caught Fire

Monday, October 8th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I have mentioned before usability issues of my Lenovo Thinkpad T60p computer. Usability issues is one thing. Another—and potential deadly—thing happened Saturday evening at home. This is what I write to our internal support and expect them to forward. Saturday evening I put the power plug in the laptop to recharge. I came back to […]

Software Eliminates User Errors And Linkrot

Friday, October 5th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

The blog software WordPress is just released in version 2.3. One of the new additions are a feature that can rescue and correct links when users accidentally follow a link in an email broken over 2 lines. Or following an old link that the blog author has renamed. We’ve cleaned up URLs a bunch in […]