An interesting debate has taken shape over the past 5 years or so about the severity of content filtering within K-12 networks. When I say content filtering I mean school districts being asked, by law, to restrict access to sites that are potentially dangerous in some way for them to access.

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.

I often think about user interface design for computer applications and specifically web based applications.  My thoughts often revolve around the “rules” of these interactions.  For example: Most users interacting with an application will do it using their keyboard, their mouse, and a web browser of their choice.  Since I cannot impact those tools,

In 1991 David Allen Stokes wrote, “The use of natural language to prescribe complex, dynamic systems has at least three severe problems: ambiguity, inaccuracy and inconsistency.” I have never seen a specification document that did not suffer from at least 2 of the 3 issues related by Mr. Stokes 16 years ago in his article on Requirements Analysis.