Daniel Pietzsch

Personal blog. Mostly photos.

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Carsonified » Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git

carsonified.com

I have never worked with Git. But this article explains the key features very good, and I am curious to try it out!

You can continue to use a centralized workflow, with one central server that everyone pushes to and pulls from. However, you can also do more interesting things. For example, you can have a remote repository for each user or sub-team in your group that they have write access to, then a designated maintainer or QA team or integrator can then pull their work together and push it to a ‘gold’ repository that is deployed from.

If you don’t know what Git is all about (like me), that’s a great read to get started.

“What really matters are features and user experience, not the developer technologies used to make them.”
–

John Gruber

Something you should always keep in mind!

★ C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX

daringfireball.net

Snow Leopard, effectively, gives us the file-to-application binding policy of Windows 3.0.

What a great title!

ABTests.com is the first website I see (and the only one so far), making it possible to display the password your are typing when registering a new account. I was wondering when it’ll be the first time I’ll see this after reading Jacob Nielsen’s Stop...

ABTests.com is the first website I see (and the only one so far), making it possible to display the password your are typing when registering a new account.

I was wondering when it’ll be the first time I’ll see this after reading Jacob Nielsen’s Stop Password Masking:

Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn’t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.

They use two input fields to do this - one of type=“password” and one of type=“text”. They hide/show them according to whether the checkbox it ticked or not:

<label for="id_password1">I want my password to be
    <input type="password" name="password1" id="id_password1" />
    <input type="text" class="" style="display: none;">
</label>
<input id="show-password" type="checkbox" class="show-password">
<label for="show-password" id="show-password-label">Show password</label>

Do you know of other websites that do this?

“ Personas are a powerful tool for helping you to better understand the needs of your users. In this comic, drawn exclusively for Think Vitamin, you’ll learn more about Personas and how they’ll revolutionize the way you design and build web...

Personas are a powerful tool for helping you to better understand the needs of your users. In this comic, drawn exclusively for Think Vitamin, you’ll learn more about Personas and how they’ll revolutionize the way you design and build web sites.

Carsonified » How to Understand Your Users with Personas

A Grander K

blogs.ngm.com

What is a kilogram? It’s 2.2 pounds, of course. Or is it? The kilo is the only basic international standard pegged to a physical object—a 120-year-old platinum-iridium cylinder kept in a vault outside Paris and known as Le Grand K

The lesson of the Sidekick failure

marco.org

I’m happy to announce that Tumblr will be releasing an easy backup tool in the coming weeks.

Ha! I knew, they’ll come up with great stuff!

For Immediate Relief: Speaking Like a Human

kungfugrippe.com

Merlin Mann on NewsGator’s “NewsGator Platinum Partner Program Leverages Best Enterprise Social Computing Minds to Ensure Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Success” press release:

Regardless of the industry, audience, or purpose, this is just bad writing for non-people.

…and…

Setting aside that it’s an announcement about a future announcement, you got yourself a greatest hits of ineffective writing going on here. You got passive voice, buzzword bingo, empty adverbs, tons more passive voice, and a piquant use of “air quotes” that lightens up a non-nutritional buzzterm even the writers seem to think makes no sense.

…and…

[…] if you’re working in a job where your credibility is pegged to saying things that literally don’t make sense, then there’s a good chance what you’re doing doesn’t make sense either. If what you’re doing does make sense, then, for Christ’s sake, talk like a human being.

“There’s a common attribute that makes for good designers, good engineers, good employees, and good companies. For a long time, I couldn’t figure out what it was. Was it practice? Was it skill? Was it innate ability? Turns out, it’s none of those. It’s taste.”
– Dustin Curtis
OpenOfficeMouse: The Multi-Button Application Mouse for OpenOffice.org Why do some people seriously think, this is a good idea? This mouse also reminded me of a great graphic by Eric Burke:

OpenOfficeMouse: The Multi-Button Application Mouse for OpenOffice.org

(via Gruber)

Why do some people seriously think, this is a good idea?

This mouse also reminded me of a great graphic by Eric Burke:

Simplicity

“The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do. That’s why most people make complex stuff. Simple requires deep thought, discipline, and patience[…]”
– How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well - (37signals)
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
– Martin Fowler, “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”

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blog.leahculver.com

Both! In the same form. I like when people care that much about their UI and UX.

Chrome OS And The Microsoft Squeeze

washingtonpost.com

Interesting article by The Washington Post on Chrome OS and what this might mean for Microsoft and Windows.

Google isn’t trying to compete with a standard OS, they’re trying to help users realize that for the majority of computing they do, they don’t need one in the first place. Maybe you have a desktop computer at home for those few tasks that need dedicated native applications, and maybe that runs Windows or maybe that runs OS X. But maybe the machine that you use most of the time is your cheap, fast ChromeBook.

Chrome OS: Internet failing at PC > PC failing at Internet

arstechnica.com

Saving files, copying them, syncing them—this is all pointless clerical work that I want my computer to do for me. ChromeOS officially nukes the “file” as a core user-facing OS abstraction. This is a huge victory for users everywhere[…]

(via Daring Fireball)