I recently started browsing the excellent UI-patterns.com site again and came across one of my favorite UX concepts: Lazy Registration. I won’t repeat the details too much here, but the concept is simple… let your users use you and delay making them create an account until the last possible moment. A lot of sites can [...]
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MidMoSoftwareDevelopment Group
November 22nd, 2008
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Some of you may have attended the MidMoXp usergroup which I began organizing on behalf of CARFAX in September of last year. Although the usergroup always had very good meetings and even a couple notable speakers, it’s always suffered from on again off again scheduling, mostly in part due to my own rather haphazard, sometimes [...]
Using Value Objects in Fitnesse With Nested Tables
December 3rd, 2006
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Today I discovered something rather cool while playing with FitLibrary. Not only can you just pass primitive types to fixtures, you can also pass in value objects as well (at least in DoFixture) by using nested tables. Nested tables work pretty interesting, and I couldn’t really find much documentation on it outside of a scant [...]
OOPSLA 2006: Design Fest Round 2
November 4th, 2006
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As I mentioned earlier, I had attended the day long DesignFest session at OOPSLA my first day there. Since the whole experience picqued my interest, I decided to go ahead and attend a second session on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to perhaps inject myself more, and give it another shot. I spotted Eric Evans [...]
OOPSLA Day 1: DesignFest
October 28th, 2006
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I took part in DesignFest my first day at OOPSLA, and it was much fun and very interesting seeing all of the subtle dynamics that were at work. One of the major ideas that I gleaned from the experience was this: a good design can only come about from how well the people involved can [...]
