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!

Passenger debuted today and boy was I excited. Mod Rails (Passenger) for those of you who don’t know already is an apache module that lets you deploy Ruby on Rails applications just like you do PHP applications. I can hear you saying, “So What?” already!

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.

Maitre D: And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.

Mr Creosote: No.

Maitre D: Oh sir… it’s only wafer thin.