Archive for January, 2009

Human Time Format Gone Wrong

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

In general it’s good to use the human time formats (1 hour ago, 2 months ago, etc.) that you see in many of the new web applications. In general, the detail level is up the shorter the time span.

Git Side Benefit: Reducing Disk Usage

Saturday, January 17th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

A side benefit of switching from Subversion to Git for source control is that Git does not use shadow files and directories to find out what has changed. I created two checkouts of a svn project — one using traditional svn and one using git (which can actually clone a svn repos — see explanation […]

Bad Usability Calendar 2009 Is Out

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

My Norwegian friend Eidar from NetLife Research pointed out that the 2009 version of the bad usability calendar is now online. Learning by bad examples is often a good way in discussing usability with people that are not hardcore usability people. I’m currently wrapping a couple of A3 calendars in plastic to use as posters […]

Intranet Inspiration

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Just purchased Jakob Nielsen’s new screenshot-packed “10 Best Intranets of 2009” report, which I plan to use as inspiration in my company. It might be of value to other Capgemini employees so I purchased the “site license to make copies within your organization and place on your own intranet”. Capgemini colleagues are free to contact […]

CSS Fun: Flag Deprecated HTML Tags

Thursday, January 8th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen