Of Colour and Presentation
4 Apr 2009
ux
The careful use of colour – of hue, saturation and lightness – can improve a user interface greatly. Sometimes the best use is to avoid distraction, allowing people to concentrate on differences that matter; sometimes the best use is to add information, revealing differences that were previously hidden. Mark Miller (of DotNetRocks and DevExpress fame) spends a lot of time focussing on this area, treating it (rightly, in my opinion) as a competitive advantage.
We are not our Users
5 Apr 2009
professional
We developers often approach software development as though our end users are just like us. Unfortunately for our end users, this is seldom the case.
Defining Polymorphism
7 Apr 2009
professional
Saw an interesting question on StackOverflow today: Polymorphism - Define In Just Two Sentences
Working smarter with XElement
7 Apr 2009
smart-code
Sometimes we developers do things the hard way for no better reason that not knowing that a better way is there.
How not to set up Tests
17 Apr 2009
testing
Some unit tests on a project were newly failing - I’d done the checkin immediately before the first failure, so it fell to me to sort out the problem.
WinForms DataBinding Goodness
27 Apr 2009
tips
There’s a lot of “goodness” buried in WinForms databinding that doesn’t get to see the light of day. Here’s one example I discovered just today …
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