Tag Archives: usability

Experiences with Mercurial and Git

15 August 2008 – 23:32

I have been a big fan of the Mercurial version control system since migrating the Chord project from CVS almost two years ago. Mercurial offers a comfortable command-line experience, good performance and a module based architecture for expansion. Since graduating, I have had to interface with Subversion and Perforce servers at work and [...]

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Twitter needs better message tracking options

12 March 2008 – 10:54

Twitter is the hot messaging platform of choice for many discerning technologists and early adopters. (If you don’t know what Twitter is, check out the CommonCraft intro video for a quick overview.) In short, Twitter provides laconic insight into what people are doing, with a diversity of client interfaces to satisfy (almost) every need. While Twitter is nominally for providing [...]

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Design priorities for performancing.com

2 April 2006 – 23:00

I came across Performancing while browsing the various winners of the Web 2.0 awards: they are ranked second in Web Development and Design. Their description sounded interesting for a new blogger like myself so I paid them a visit. I was surprised at how hard it was to find out about Performancing’s goals and products. Inspired perhaps by Jakob Nielsen’s [...]

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