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The Usability Tradeoff
Saturday, 21 August 2010As I write software, sometimes I find myself weighing my options on how to best organize and display the functionality of the program. There exists a paradox between what I want to accomplish and what the environment I'm working in allows. This is a paradox that exists in software development, and one that exists in our daily lives. Taking an example from daily life, when we look at a car we...
Tags usability
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Book Review: Mastering Joomla 1.5 Extension and Framework Development
Thursday, 22 July 2010For people looking to learn a lot about programming for Joomla 1.5, then this is the best book available to you. Mastering Joomla 1.5 Extension and Framework Development, by Chuck Lanham and James Ken...
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GPL and the courts - a case against a case
Thursday, 15 July 2010Where does the GPL's jurisdiction end? Some rather stimulating discussions have risen over the past few days on Twitter and on blogs across the net. Its hard to know who is the protagonist and ...
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State of the Project: July 2010
Monday, 12 July 2010At the start of the year many people were making predictions for 2010, but I made a list of things that needed to happen in 2010 for the Joomla project. I thought it would be appropriate to stop and l...
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Custom content types are not the future
Monday, 28 June 2010There has been an explosion in CCKs for Joomla (Content Construction Kit). Perhaps you've heard of them, some examples are K2, Zoo, FlexiContent, SOBI2, and many others. Perhaps you've used ...
Tags content | content types | development | joomla | semantics
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