We were talking the other day at work about how one of the users wants to work on her Word documents on her iPad at home. DropBox and SugarSync are close with having your documents everywhere, but you can’t edit those documents on an iPad and automatically have them sync back (unless the application is [...]
I haven’t worked on many CMS platforms over my programming career. In fact, I have used 3; WordPress, MovableType, and QP7. I have looked at Drupal and Joomla, but was quickly confused and gave up so I can’t talk much about these. Of all three I have used, QP7 is the best. Why? It provides [...]
People seem to have gone app crazy! Mobile apps are being created just so they can say that have an app. That is not what apps should be for. If you can do everything you want to in HTML and JavaScript, why spend the time and money creating an app? Make the mobile experience on [...]
When a teacher needs to send directions on how to get to his personal website, you know your website isn’t designed well. Here is what he sent: Go to www.schooldistrict.org Hold your mouse over the “Schools” tab Bring your mouse down to “School Name” Once you see the School Name “Home” page hold your mouse [...]
I had a moment of inspiration while listening to TWiT 303. I think I know why that study showed usability problems with the apps. It isn’t the app, it’s the people! I work as a developer. I work with plenty of people of various ranges of computer skills. The difference between us and them is that we aren’t [...]
For a client of mine, I am shopping for software right now. This isn’t your average few hundred dollar package. We are talking enterprise-grade software costing thousands. A couple weeks ago I put in a request for more information to three vendors. One immediately responded via a bot with more sales material and no further [...]
A few weeks back, we discovered a bug in a jQuery library. I won’t go into what library or the bug. A person already filed a bug and the fix. I check a week or two later and the bug wasn’t fixed yet. So I did what any developer would do, I sat down learned [...]
In Google Reader they call them Starred Items. In Twitter, they call them favorites. In Facebook, they have…. nothing. The biggest missing feature in Facebook is the ability to somehow go back to a list of items that you didn’t have time at that moment to look at, but want to look at more later [...]
Seriously, I have had my mikewills.name domain for about 3-4 years and mikewills.me for over a year. I know they are valid email addresses. At first I though it as a regex issue with 4 letter 1st level domains. Now I know you are checking it for “valid” domains. Unfortunately, that is full of #FAIL. [...]
