ASP.NET Resources

May 2007

Bringing Design to Software: A Must-Read for Computer Professionals

By way of Dreaming in Code (hat tip to Joe), I stumbled upon the Software Design Manifesto by Mitch Kapor, the legendary founder of Lotus and the designer of all-time famous Lotus 1-2-3. This “manifesto” was first delivered in 1990, but it is as valid today as ever.

5/29/2007 |

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Patriotism Is Lack of Trust in Others

While we’re on the subject of the game theory, I’d like to quote Daniel Lutzker, a lieutenant in the psychology service at Fort Dix. He ~~concluded~~ conducted a series of studies on cooperation and concluded with disappointment:

5/21/2007 |

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Rational Features for Irrational Users

The book Co-Opetition piqued my interest in the game theory. The game theory is a mathematical model. It is a game played by

5/21/2007 |

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Attractive Things Work Better

Do good-looking products work better? Donald Norman says yes in his book Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things.

5/21/2007 |

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How to Fix the Microsoft.com Home Page

When Microsoft redesigned their home page, I was wondering if they simply threw it out there for critique. The page was violating at least a couple of basic design tenets, and I simply didn’t think Microsoft would leave it as-is. However, either nobody behind Microsoft.com sees anything wrong, or they left the job half done (again).

5/17/2007 |

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Kuler: an Awesome Color Harmony Tool from Adobe

When it comes to building a color palette for a project, the choice is bewildering. There are plenty of color matching and mixing tools on the web. However, Adobe’s Kuler is the best one I’ve seen to date. Kuler not only generates color schemes, it “helps artists create harmonic color schemes.” (Picked up via Andy King)

5/15/2007 |

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How to Waste a Sale

Yesterday I was shopping for a used book at Amazon. If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you can easily tell which book I settled for (click for a bigger screen shot):

5/9/2007 |

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An Easy Way to Cause Stack Overflow

If you’ve ever been greeted with the following red-on-white error message, I’ve got a tip for you.

5/5/2007 |

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Better Usability with Silverlight? Yeah, right!

My ears are still ringing from all the announcements of the shipped Silverlight beta, and I’m already seeing funny ideas floating around. The most dangerous one, in my opinion, is that Silverlight will be such a great boon to usability. Really?

5/5/2007 |

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Book Review: Co-Opetition

This book is about interesting approaches of combining competition and cooperation to arrive at something beyond the traditional text-book theory of competition. The premise is based on the Game Theory which, I admit, I never heard about prior to this. Theories tend to gain academic following, whose devotees publish research papers targeted at similar-minded associates. Not so with this book. It is written in plain English.

5/3/2007 |

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May 2007