Commentary | Jason E. Shao

The death of computing (Member view) : Articles : Future of Computing : BCS

May

14

2007

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.9662 If the gap between public knowledge and academic curriculum isn’t large enough, the gap between academia and industry practice is a gaping hole. While academic departments concentrate on developing new computer systems in an ideal organisational environment, a lot of industry has moved away from in-house development to a focus on delivering a service. ...

Instructional Text in the User Interface: Some Counterintuitive Implications of User Behaviors :: UXmatters

May

14

2007

Instructional Text in the User Interface: Some Counterintuitive Implications of User Behaviors :: UXmatters The dynamics of how users interact with interactive elements within a user interface change how we must approach instruction that we deliver within user interfaces. Users skip static elements, such as instructional text, because they focus immediately on downstream actionable objects. ...

You children are not monsters…

May

7

2007

“But we are cows” – Chris, the other day “mooo… mooo…” – Everyone, immediately after

I finally get REST. Wow.

May

2

2007

I finally get REST. Wow. It’s depressing to think that SOAP started just about 10 years ago and that now that everything is said and done, we built RPC again. I know SOAP is really an XML messaging protocol, you can do oneway async stuff, etc, etc, but let’s face it. The tools make the ...

Map of Online Communitites

May

2

2007

Via Jesse – Map of online communities. I wonder if it’s missing an important Balkanized zones of all the institutional silos for Universities, company intranets, etc. Getting back into the whole identity track — how do you go about breaking down all the silos. OpenID seems like it could be part of it, building bridges ...