September 2008 - Posts

• And so it came to PASS...

  Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:10 PM | 4 Comments
  
  

  On 18-21 November this year, in the great city of Seattle, PASS will be holding their 10th annual conference. If you work with SQL Server, you should attend if you possibly can. It's an independently-organized summit, but with the hand of Microsoft firmly Read More by Tony Davis | 4 Comments | Comment on this post

• Application Usability and Standards

  Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:02 PM | 29 Comments
  
  

  Office 2007's 'ribbon UI', now optimistically renamed 'Office Fluent User Interface', was an act of strange corporate madness by Microsoft. This may seem an unfair statement, since it looks like a genuine attempt to make the application easier to learn Read More by Tony Davis | 29 Comments | Comment on this post

• Application Usability and the JFDI Button

  Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:14 PM | 30 Comments
  
  

  It is strange how we, as software developers, get caught up in using conventions in applications that seem to be designed merely to irritate the users. Why do we do it? I think that it is because we tend to think that whatever Microsoft does is best practice. Read More by Tony Davis | 30 Comments | Comment on this post