Archive for the ‘software’ Category
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
We're planning some major improvements to how our products are used. It so happened that one project triggered the other, and we're left with about 6-9 projects (depending on how you group them) that needs to be coordinated in order to achieve the aims.
Coordination takes time from developers, so we ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
Not many years ago, people would giggle and think of enterprise and JavaScript as an oxymoron. Not so much anymore. If you want to be a serious actor even in (or maybe especially in) the enterprise software market, you have to take JavaScript seriously. Large parts of your product's business ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Defining what great software is, is not a complex endeavor. I prefer to boil it down into two distinct characteristics.
a) Ease of Use
The software solution walks you gently through the process of solving your problems as intended. No distractions, no unnecessary decisions to make, no confusions, always heading towards the ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
There are three prominent problems in the software industry that bothers me in particular at the moment. Being a part of that industry, I feel somewhat responsible to help shed some light on these problems. I list each problem below, with a proposed solution outlined.
Problem 1. Foot-in-the-door Software
The recipe for ...
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