Paypal showed me this splash screen when logging in: I think this is a useful design pattern that can be valuable to most of our clients dealing with time-sensitive data. It is time-consuming for an application to check if there are new payments on every request. This check is better off being uncoupled from the […]
Project managers often have a hard time understanding web standards and why they matter. In this case, my arguments made a perfect business case for the managers of a particular project.
Michael Heilemann wrote a rant on Billetlugen, a Danish company that sells tickets to concerts, etc. Two weeks ago they sold 85,000 tickets to Madonna’s only concert in scandinavia, August 24 in Horsens, Denmark. I had the worst user experience ever, and Billetlugen’s systems failed to sell me the tickets. We were on holiday in […]
How do you build a system that can deliver and update content to 100,000 people simultaneously? Via Ajaxian.com I saw this article from MacRumors on what traffic they got when Steve Jobs delivered his keynote on MacWorld a few days ago.
Also in this post: Ajaxinfo (the guys behind AJAX usability metrics), AJAX ROI faceoff, where a traditional webapp is compared to an AJAX webapp. For the visually oriented, there is a video comparing the two applications.
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