An Idiot with a Hammer. Or, How I Learned Not to Rely on Cached data

I’ve spent a good deal of time this week un-doing performance improvements because they clash with acceptable practices at work. It’s brought this saying to mind:

“To an idiot with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

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New Year Randoms

It’s not a resolution, It’s WordPress 2.0

I don’t make New Years Resolutions. The fact that my site looks different as of the first of the year is related more to a software update than real effort on my part. I upgraded the software, it hosed how I used to do things, so I pulled an off-the-shelf theme out of the box, and here we are. Continue reading “New Year Randoms”

Don’t Make Me Think: The Workshop, with Steve Krug – Notes and Opinions

Chicago, September 30, 2005
Notes and Opinions

It’s unbelievably hard to get rid of all of the usability issues on a website. Our capacity for finding usability problems usually exceeds our resources for fixing them, so we’ve got to shoot for the biggest ones that affect the most people and try to keep ahead of the curve.

But how do you identify the biggest ones? What’s an expert’s opinion on the most important things to get right? How does that apply to my site? I went to this seminar with precisely these questions, and wasn’t disappointed.

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