"Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
— Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by
Arthur Conan Doyle.
"I
like deadlines," cartoonist Scott Adams once said. "I especially like the
whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
"There is nothing like that feeling of spending days and days banging your head
against a wall trying to solve a programming problem then suddenly finding that
one tiny obscure and seemingly unrelated piece of the puzzle that unlocks the
solution. Oh yeah!"
- Chris Maunder, CodeProject Newsletter 28 Jan 2002
"Management at eSnipe,
which is me, is also feeling the pain of the 2002 bear market. So rather than
pout about it, I bought some stuff on eBay that I really didn’t need, but made
me feel better."
- Tom Campbell, president of
eSnipe
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
9:09:05 AM Information Architecture Heuristics. Nice list of points to consider when doing site eval. The points are categorized under the following: Main page; Search interface; Search results; Site-wide navigation; Contextual navigation; [elearningpost8/30/2004]
8:56:28 AM What a great tool: Web Accessibility Toolbar The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been developed to aid manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects of accessibility. It consists of a range of functions that: Identify components of a web page; Facilitate the use of 3rd party online applications; Simulate user experiences; Provide links to references and additional resources. The good and bad of having this installed is it constantly reminds me I still have some work to get done to make this site a bit more standards based. [Scott Watermasysk9/11/2004]
8:51:42 AM A web standards checklist. A comprehensive checklist for web standards-based design. One can use this checklist to: to show the breadth of web standards; as a handy tool for developers during the production phase of websites; as an aid for developers who are interested in moving towards web standards [elearningpost8/19/2004]
8:50:35 AM Intranets look vainly to knowledge management. Good advice on managing organizational knowledge: "Sharing knowledge takes effort and skill, even between two people talking face-to-face. You don't create that by writing stuff down; you create it by creating robust relationships that give people the confidence to ask questions and learn from each other, and by encouraging the disciplines of asking questions without wasting people's time, and of answering questions with clarity and power, of telling vivid stories within a shared value system. These are the things that matter, the things businesses need to be good at."[elearningpost9/7/2004]
"Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
