If you want me to press yes when I want a receipt then give me a button that says “Yes.”. Instead the genius that made this pump thought it’s be better to give me a “Receipt/Yes” button.

There is an entire sub-culture on the internet devoted to the strict adherence to the almight W3C “standards.”  I intentionally put standards in quotes because there isn’t any form of universal adoption of these recommendations by the major browsers just yet.  While each iteration of Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Mozilla move us closer together the differences are still staggering in some cases.

I just read Jakob Nielsen’s “Top-10 Application Design Mistakes” and thought I’d post some notes on it here and encourage everyone to read it since it is a great summary/categorization of the common issues.  Why am I qualified to comment on this list?  Well, I’ve made a lot of these mistakes in my own work and had to figure out how to avoid them the hard way!

Many companies are using the open-source groupware / “project management” tool dotProject.

It’s a neat little application that can be used for anything from simple task management to full blown Gantt chart nerdiness. One of the issues that many people have when first setting up the application is

Friday at 12:00am I started working to develop the visual style that would become our app for the Railsrumble.

Sunday at 12:25am I got to sleep after working with Jared to build a complete Rails application and deploy it in just 48 hours.