Alex around the World

Robert Hoekman, about error handling in web apps: “The best way to handle errors is to prevent them from ever occurring.” Excerpt from his book titled “designing the obvious”.

I just started to read a book I recently bought about web project management: “Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches” (Thomas J. Shelford & Gregory A. Remillard). This is not my first book on the subject and although I’m only on chapter 3, I can say that I agree [...]

Quoted from Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morvile’s book entitled “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web” (O’Reilly, 2nd edition, 2002): [...]be aware of the challenges of organizing information on the Web. Language is ambiguous, content is heterogeneous, people have different perspectives, and politics can rearits ugly head. (Chapter 5: Organization Systems, p. 74) Of all [...]

I was reading Christina Wodtke’s book titled “Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web” and caught the following excerpt: [...] thoughtful planning and well-designed Information Architecture improves Findability – Allowing customers to easily access those items they need, be they spatulas or term papers. Usability – Allwowing customers to wend their way to those items and [...]

So this is how Safari 3 Beta on Windows XP looks like? I’ve tried to install it on Windows XP. The installation went smoothly. Then the system asked me for a proxy password (I’ve installed it on a test machine at work). Next thing I see is this nice little error message – such a [...]