September 26, 2008 7:33 PM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Human Interface Design,
Software application development,
Software Quality,
User Experience,
User Interface,
UXI have written quite often over the past year about user interface issues. One of my blog posts worked with the question of whether the interface should be busy or sparse. I also provided...
September 25, 2008 3:31 PM
Posted by: SJC
Failed software updates,
Software maintenance,
Software testing,
Vista Update ProblemDon't you hate it when an update fails? I had the experience just yesterday while doing an update on my Microsoft Vista laptop. The updates appeared to be going correctly, but at the very end I found myself in an endless loop situation. The situation was not pretty and upon further investigation...
September 25, 2008 1:00 AM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business Application Value,
Business process automation,
IT Management,
Small Business,
Social Networking,
Software application developmentSocial networking in business has been receiving quite a bit of press lately with many differing views on just what should or should not be allowed, or how to use various social networking tools now available. I ran into an interesting read in an article "
September 24, 2008 3:00 PM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Software Quality,
User InterfaceEarly this month when I first read about Google's release of it's "Chrome" browser my first thought was "Why do we need another browser?". I then pictured the Google page I now use as the home page on all of my systems, www.google.com. It meets my standard...
September 24, 2008 11:19 AM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business process automation,
character based applications,
Small Business Computing,
Software maintenanceI had the opportunity recently to make some minor changes to reports originally created in the late 80's. The application is a character-based app running on an "old" version of SCO Unix, and hardware that has been kept alive by some clever mix and match combination of "old" components taken from...
September 19, 2008 9:05 PM
Posted by: SJC
It was September 18th a year ago that I made my first post in this blog. At the time, I really didn't know much about blogging, only vaguely knew that when one had a blog to voice their thoughts on a topic, that they would almost inevitably find someone who shared their thoughts - someone who...