Archive for June, 2008

Ten Principles Of Google User Experience

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jungle drums pointed me to the brilliant usability principles posted by Google. I decided to quote them below here, because it would be interesting to see what changes will be applied over time. Furthermore, the principles are really, really good and deserve attention. I like that there is room for performance specific measurements (“every millisecond […]

Don’t Repeat Yourself (Unless Reading Book)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

After reading Pragmatic Programmer at my recent vacation, I immediately found an urge to repeat myself and read it again.

Ironic that one of the most popular tips from it is “Don’t repeat yourself”.

Not Ready For Agile

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Pragmatic programmer Andy Hunt’s “Stage 0: Not Ready For Agile” is a brilliant blog post where he ponders over counter-indicators for an agile organization. So if you see these, your organization is probably not agile. You’re not ready for agile if you: are inflexible. You’ve got a policy for everything. If it’s not in the […]

The Dark Side of Information Architecture

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Dark side of IA

Find Occurences of Text String in Files

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I had to search for occurences of string in particular files, and using Cygwin i did the following: find all files that ends on .js, .html or .ascx: $ find -regextype posix-extended -regex “.+\.(js|html?|ascx)$” Then search for lines that contain the following javascript construction for( var x in object) I ended up with this regular […]

Fixes to Common CSS Problems

Monday, June 16th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Just home again from two weeks vacation, I found this in my delicious popular feed (i usually scan the delicious popular feed for links others find interesting). Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes Good explanations to some of the usual I run into. For instance, the double margin float bug in […]