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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Usability is not Independent of Programming
The discussion came up of how to improve usability of the system. One position was to hire a usability expert to draw us a specification of a highly user friendly system, and then deliver that to the development team to implement it. … Continue reading
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Splash Screen Trouble
Whoever invented “Splash Screens” should be strung up and publicly humiliated. The whole idea wreaks of “linear thinking” and misses the whole point about what a windowing system is all about.
The Error Message IS Documentation for Code
Another example of content free documentation below: documentation that is a waste of screen space even to display it on the screen. Here the issue is a development team so enamored with Documentation (with a capital D) that they really … Continue reading
XML Schema Validation, or not?
The question is: should a program that reads a standard XML file format use XML Schema Validation when reading the file to make sure that the file being read is properly formatted? The answer depends upon a lot of things. … Continue reading
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#27 A Proper Module does NOT need a Config File
It is common for a system or a program to have a config file: that is a file that holds a bunch of settings that can be adjusted by the administrator or user to get desired effect. A code module, … Continue reading
#26 Never Suppress Warnings
There are often ways to specify within the code that you want to suppress some or all of the warnings that the compiler might produce.
The Perfect Development Center
This came from a brainstorm meeting around “What would be in the perfect development server?” Each member of a team of people developing a software product would have their own desktop (or laptop) computers, and there would be a server … Continue reading
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