Category: Application design
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How the Internet has Changed the Spread of Information
Something new today, a post by a guest blogger John Harris on how the internet has changed the spread of information. Away you go, John, — In the past couple of decades, the Internet has transformed from a classic message board to a tool that is used to instantly communicate with loved ones, release new…
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A review of JavaScript drawing libraries for flowcharts, Gantt charts and timelines
Overview I manage my projects using my own ElephantPM project management methodology. This is a similar in many ways to PRINCE2 but is greatly simplified so that it is suitable for use by smaller organisations. My needs ElephantPM divides the Start-up stage into an analysis step and a planning step. During the analysis step it…
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We should mourn Businesslink.gov.uk because GOV.UK is crap
Businesslink.gov.uk has gone to be replaced by the the “Simpler, clearer, faster”, ugly and inaccurate GOV.UK I worked for Businesslink and I was proud of the job done by my myself and my colleagues. For those who don’t know Businesslink was a website provided by the DTI (later HMRC) for small businesses. It provided accurate…
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Olympic ticket website is badly designed
In my occasional series on websites I truly hate this must be the worst so far. The Olympic ticket website is designed to cause the maximum frustration to users by actually lying to them. The scenario is this Lord Coe appears on telly last night says “please buy some football tickets” The Olympics people…
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Amazon Web Services internal load balancing
This is a very nice feature from Amazon that allows the adoption of a more scalable and secure infrastructure. Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, We are excited to announce that you can now create a load balancer in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (“VPC”) for internal load balancing. With this new feature, you can balance…
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How Recruiters See Your Resume – Business Insider
An interesting insight into recruiters’ behaviour What Recruiters Look At During The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Resume via How Recruiters See Your Resume – Business Insider.
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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.
Dr James Bayley 