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Anatomy of a feature

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:28:55 +0000

This is a pretty amusing blog post, that is entirely true, but can be applied to virtually any software UI, whether browser based or not desktop based… (especially seeing as browser based web apps are becoming more and more rich UI like)

http://inessential.com/2009/07/30/anatomy_of_a_feature

Anyway thought it was a funny read on why sometimes the addition of what (on the surface) maybe a simple sounding feature, can often be fraught with all sorts of caveats and edge cases that must be handled for an app to be robust and logical for the end user…

I like this line the best: “The code behind the feedback window is, again, bigger than the http-call code. (By now you’ve gotten the idea that the core functionality of a feature is often the very smallest part.)“

Are you a remote desktop fiend? RoyalTS is your saviour.

craig — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:08:44 +0000

If you’re anything like me, you’re firing up remote desktop about a thousand times a day, and more often than not, two or three terminal windows to different servers.

In our production environment we have 4 (actually 5) servers deployed – web1, web2, encoding, db and storage – and keeping track of those RDP sessions can get pretty crazy.

Then one day you happen upon a tool that just makes you life easier and you can’t help but wonder how you lived without it.

RoyalTS is one of those tools – if you manage RDP sessions daily, you have to go and check it out – it helps keep track of your RDP sessions, usernames, passwords, connection status and lots more.

Welcome to On the Bubble

craig — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:54:08 +0000

After a hiatus, I’m back blogging about tech stuff. I already blog about personal stuff elsewhere since I’ve left Aus for the UK, but I’d prefer to keep the two seperate, so this one has been revived!

The combination of new things I’ve been stumbling across dev wise since coming over to the UK and a good friend inspiring me to get back into blogging about tech/dev stuff was the catalyst and couldn’t be at a better time. There’s a lot of exciting stuff going on in the Adobe/RIA space for web developers right now.

Hope I make sense some of the time Enjoy.