Autor: Tim Strehle

Leslie Michael Orchard – Queue everything and delight everyone: „And, in the end, that’s really the purpose of a web-based content creation interface—accepting something as quickly as possible to make the user happy enough to continue submitting more. The other part of the user interface, retrieval, serves simply to get the original content distributed as…

The Metadata Working Group – Specifications: „The content overlap between the most commonly used standards can result in some confusion. This document describes how best to use existing standards such as Exif, IPTC, and XMP to address the key organizational metadata questions that most consumers have.“ An excerpt from the Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata…

Woork – 10 Handwritten fonts you can’t miss: „This is a list of my preferred Handwritten fonts I often use in my design projects. I included a link to download each font apart and some suggest about how you can use them.“

Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg (back in 2005) – Uh, Oh – It’s Magic: „I’ll tell you one thing that I think is wrong with search: magic. If there’s one lesson I learned in 20+ years in the data world, it’s that magic doesn’t sell. Customers don’t like magic. […] I chuckle when I see…

Joel Spolsky – Password management finally possible: „On all your Windows computers, install PasswordSafe. […] Store the file in your DropBox folder.“ On the Mac, you can use either Password Gorilla or PasswordSafeSWT.

What to choose for an Ajax-based web application (full JavaScript „RIA“ interface)? We’re especially looking for lots of stable, beautiful, existing components (tree view with drag & drop, floating grid, forms), and an architecture suited to writing a large application… Contenders: YUI (Yahoo! UI Library) Ext JS Dojo / Dijit SproutCore GWT (Google Web Toolkit)…

Design Float – Having fun with geotagged photos: „Today I am going to explain how to extract the geotagging information stored by Picasa and do some fun things with it in PHP.“

Joel Spolsky – Don’t hide or disable menu items: „Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there’s some reason you can’t complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the user why.“

Todd Ogasawara at the O’Reilly Digital Media Blog – iPod touch Backward Lesson from Windows Mobile: The Value of a Phone-less Device: „The iPod touch with its new ability to download and install applications will, I believe, demonstrate that there is a segment of the market that wants a multimedia-PDA device that is connectable (via…

Tim Bray –Build One To Throw Away: „Managers, good managers, want a plan; they want to lock in design constraints so that work can be dealt out and progress tracked and promises kept. Programmers, good programmers, know that they’re not smart enough to get the core design choices right until they’ve built something that works.…