First: Principles

Mark Hurst's great This Is Broken website gives examples of bad user interfaces, both on the net and in the meat world. You can't ...

I had occasion to visit Hardin Ridge yesterday for the International Migratory Bird Day celebrations. They had several stations, and it was...

It's a funny thing, but I'm pretty used to being marketed to. When I needed to get a gym membership, the gyms that I went to had s...

Hey, dad? Uh-huh? How many hours are there in a day? There are 24 hours in a day, son. Oh. So how many hours are there in a night? I meant, ...

Second session at the seminar was on the new features of SQL Server 2005; since I was at the launch party in Indianapolis I didn't feel ...

I’m blogging today from a Microsoft FastTrack seminar. Perpetual Technologies in Indianapolis is putting this on in some sort of collaborat...

I've been looking around for a good way to test Javascript functions. There are at least two if not more versions of JSUnit, one here a...

I've had an interest for a long time in the science of sports team rankings, for various reasons , which was forcibly brought to mind wh...

The Oracle version of SQL has some nice keywords for returning your data in an XML format. (I suppose the other servers do too, but I'v...

I wrote earlier about creating online communities around business-to-business applications, with a vague promise to add more, but didn't...

I've been writing various articles for Bloomingpedia in the last month or so, in an effort not so much to improve that site as to unders...

(Hey, this is my 200th blog post! And it only took me three years!) One principle of agile development that doesn't get a lot of attenti...

Sophia Travis is a Monroe County Council member - and, remarkably, one who is sophisticated enough to have her own blog. On one post , she...

I've accepted a new job with Envisage Technologies , a small software company in Bloomington. I'm excited about it as it's a co...

The problem with having six inches of snow dumped on us is that the hill that leads to our house has a slope that isn't quite a vertica...

I had to add different versions of a file to my installer today. Seemed easy enough to do - the files were available in the right places an...

Y'know, I'm not affiliated with Microsoft at all, although I own some stock and use their products happily. So I'd like to thin...

Chris has left LibraryThing . I don't know him, but apparently he's done some really good work for one of my favorite Web 2.0 play...

I got into a discussion with someone concerning the blogosphere and its effect on corporations today. Here's something I hadn't rea...

A traveler visited a city where many stone cutters were working. Approaching several, he asked the same question: "What are you doing?&...