:Web Application Usability

What I like about blogrolling.com is that it orders my blog roll blogroll according to the most recent updated. I can change the setting to alphabatic or by added date etc, but they are not available to me on my blog. Blo.gs also implements favourates.xml whicharranges your blogroll by the most frequently updated. I want more options on my page; Arrange by: Last updated, Most popular, Recently added, Most clicked also, blogs that link to me. I also want to store my blog roll by topics. How do I shift between these outlines? Do I need to design different views for each of them?

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Jakob Neilson gave three reasons why flash is bad. “It encourages design abuse (gratuitous animation, less user control, nonstandard GUI controls) , it breaks with the Web’s fundamental interaction principles, and it distracts attention from the site’s core value.” User interfaces which respond to the mouse drags rather than mouse clicks are better done in flash. “One interface for all actions” is better in flash. More to come….

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has some pretty neat flash thingies along with fla files, but text editor had been removed 🙁 No problem, obedit does it too also does ektron.

Illogicz’s neat flash files …

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MSDN launched its own pattern repository on Apr 24th 2003. An interesting piece from Stece Kirk,
“Why make a distinction between architecture and design?
Though we often use the terms interchangeably in informal contexts, in practice the distinction can be an important one. Borrowing from the mature field of building technologies, architecture refers to the building as a whole. Heating/cooling, lighting, and furnishing systems are, in this context, merely design. They can change over the lifetime of the building, with minimal effect on the architecture. Architecture encompasses design.
In the IT world, clearly defined autonomous subsystems help simplify development, testing, deployment, and operations, and suggest logical division of responsibility. Good architecture accommodates the evolution of the design of these subsystems. And like building architecture, the lifetime of IT architecture should span generations of subsystems with minimal change.”

Microsoft pattern repository: …

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Jason Perry has some interesting flash thingies, how to make the back button work, how to dynamically load images, and lots of other stuff. Short and sweet.

Tutorials in Action scripting: …

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A pattern concists of a problem, forces around the problem, solutions and its consequences. The name was caught by the media, bashed up and left alone. The most important part of a pattern is the coining a name, which makes its representionin our mind easier. We can talk about it with others and make more complex operations with it. Well compexity is reduced by finding patterns inside the mess, right? The value of the pattern depends on the quality of design it produces.
Patterns are tree structure: Replacing the web structure of the real world with linked trees will make the design easier for humans, who are essentialy “tree thinkers” For more info read “A city is not a tree” by Cristopher Alexandar. It says that, humans arrange informationin tree format because it reduces complexity. But the world is really a semi-lattise or a web. We need different view points when solving a problem. But an individual considers only one view point, thats why we do group discussions. In order to reduce redundancy and complexity in a database, we have relational databases which link up different sets of data. Will this method provide an insight into how outliners will be useful to solve problems? How will it help in creating a central model? Will having templates for outliners make our tasks easy, will it help in innovation? How do the views in MVC fit into this? Is a view tree hierarchy from a view point?

Problems with patterns: …

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defines a set of best programming practices It has been written. It defines a set of processes, a method to do programing. Patterns help us to design programs.

Extreme programing: XP …

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One thing about patterns is that they can be applied across fields. Insights are found by applying patterns in this way. Why? Do they help us think out of the box? Is it “random thinking” and the pattern that fits succeeds?

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is a neat UML diagram drawing tool done in flash by Grant Skinner. Is this what flash is supposed to do? One problem with flash is that I find myself click the left click button for options.

GModeler: …

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Ralf Bokelberg, Mike Chambers, Charlie Cordova, Branden Hall, Peter Hall, Dave Yang.

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