A coworker turned me onto the webcomic xkcd earlier this summer. If you are reading this (there’s a philosophy joke here somewhere…), then you’ll probably appreciate the humor of this guy. Need more proof? Aside from syndicating the comic directly in his RSS feed (I’ve never seen that before), he also (a) does not have [...]
Read More for funWhenever I get into a discussion about web usability or UI, I always use the same analogy to describe how to succeed in making happy users. At this point, it’s stood up to a fair amount of scrutiny in conversation, but I’ve never put it onto paper. I firmly believe that all good ideas should [...]
Read More customer service, usabilityWhen writing SQL statements, sometimes I want to filter the result set based on a value that must be computed out of the stored data. Here’s an example: I want to see which widgets have been sold more than once, and how many times each of those remaining widgets have sold. Obviously we could pass [...]
Read More mysql, programmingOver at ClassicWines, we recently experienced a login issue, where data was not being saved to the session after submitting valid credentials. Enter your username, password, and you would end up back at the home page as if nothing happened. I was banging my head against my desk (literally) looking for the cause. Cut to [...]
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