This is a crazy thought I had going out for lunch. Usability has been present since the time of Jesus. God gave us man the 10 commandments. Then Jesus came and I’m sure he must’ve thought “gee… people won’t get this is too complicated…” and he said: “Love each other as I have loved you”.
Usability is [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 27, 2007
Jesus and Usability
February 27, 2007
Dekoh vs Adobe Apollo
Update: A person from Dekoh just replied to this post explaining all these doubts.
Today the Dekoh guys have a post on their blog with a comparison of their product and Adobe Apollo. Some of the points are not completely clear to me:
RSS Support: Dekoh Yes, Apollo No. What does this mean? What kinda of RSS [...]
February 26, 2007
Universal Widget API
Netvibes has opened the registration for the preview (soon as ready) of their Universal Widget API (UWA) announced last week at FOWA (Future of Web Apps).
This API is aimed to help delopers write widgets once for all platforms (Netvibes, Google, OSX, Vista -¿?, etc.)
I hope it supports webtops too.
February 26, 2007
Smart Monday: Modifiying CSS
Today I read a post in Pearsonified about how to modify your wordpress CSS stylesheet. I would like to talk about it with a much wider approach, based on my experience with Sharepoint Portal Server 2003.
Sometimes, as a web developer you have to work with CSS stylesheets handed by some other web developer, or the [...]
February 23, 2007
Robert Scoble on Microsoft vs. Adobe
Today I read a post on Scobleizer about Microsoft vs Adobe . I agree and disagree.
He points out two important things. The first one is that Microsoft is facing a lot of competition when it comes to development tools, languages and all. That is true. I like Microsoft, but I can see them loosing a lot of [...]
February 22, 2007
OpenID: Simple video explanation.
The explanation to this video is in an earlier post. Thanks to Hans Dorsch for helping me put my SWF in YouTube.
February 21, 2007
Why to pass on passfaces – OpenID security
Some people are concerned on OpenID security and the possibility of phising. Some people are giving solutions to it, and while I?m not trying to be the one that’s not part of the solution, this is just crazy: http://blog.passfaces.com/?p=23
If you go there you can see that passfaces is trying to implement a security system based [...]
February 21, 2007
Switching Homepages: I love Netvibes
Today I switched homepages. Up until this morning I’ve been using Google Homepage up until today, which was a fairly good service, I just needed something more. I checked out Pageflakes and Netvibes, quickly, I didn’t have much time. I chose Netvibes over something simple: design.
Some of the features Netvibes has and GHomepage lacks:
The ability [...]
February 21, 2007
More on OpenID – What I would truly love…
This is just some crazy idea that passed through my head. My ideal OpenID provider would:
Would allow me to mashup some other services to enhance my public identity page. Flickr photos comes to my mind.
Would have social networks features (like a friend list).
Now, I think this could be implemented the other way around of what [...]
February 20, 2007
OpenID for dummies (updated)
I know this isn’t very usability related, but I just had to blog this. I’ve been hearing a lot about OpenID, but I personally didn’t pay much attention to it. Yesterday I got into it.
OpenID is a solution to the single sign-on problem. What amazes me the most about it is the paradigm shift from [...]
