Month: April 2012
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How not to design a website – Travelodge
I travel a lot and use Travelodge because it is cheap and relatively easy but their website really annoys me. The booking form has an “I accept your terms and conditions” checkbox. If you submit the form before ticking the box the site clears your credit card details and then asks to type them in…
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Presentation tier: Smart Client vs Sencha Ext JS
For our current project Keyapt we have chosen to use Smartclient for the presentation tier. This is RESTfully coupled to business tier. Others I respect have chosen to use the Sencha tools for the same job. I thought it would be useful to find a comparison and found a good one on stack exchange. Smartclient…
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Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences | The Den | Tips on Using Firefox | mozilla.org/firefox
This is a neat trick for Firefox users, Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences via Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences | The Den | Tips on Using Firefox | mozilla.org/firefox.
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Amazon CloudSearch for your company’s data
The remorseless march of Amazon continues… Announcing Amazon CloudSearchWe are pleased to announce the launch of Amazon CloudSearch, a fully-managed search service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale search applications. Amazon CloudSearch enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search service. Customers don’t…
Dr James Bayley 