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I like to write about everything that matters to considerate technology enthusiasts, but humbly retain the right to go off-topic from time to time.

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  • Designing Against The Fear of Losing Assets

    Posted on Thursday July 19th, 2007 at 16:40 in programming

    Recently, after watching this excellent Scandinavian comedy skit on YouTube, I’ve been discussing about one of the references in it with a friend: The novice user’s fear of losing data. In fact, we’re all afraid of losing our data....

  • Feature Pressure

    Posted on Sunday June 10th, 2007 at 17:43 in programming

    Recently, I've written a post about feature-sparse applications vs. feature-rich ones. To follow up on it, let's talk about another negative effect feature-rich applications can have on the user: The overload caused by them, and the anxiety of a user...

  • Let them think

    Posted on Thursday May 31st, 2007 at 15:51 in programming

    One of the mantras when designing a product is that you should clearly define what specific problem you want to solve. For a software designer, this means defining a certain workflow model that your product will hook into and optimize. In this model...

  • Spam-Bots Outsmarted

    Posted on Thursday April 19th, 2007 at 17:40 in programming

    Yesterday, I've written about a way to limit the amount of SPAM comments that make it into the Askiment moderation queue. To quickly come to the answer everybody's most interested in, yes, it works super-well! This morning, I only had 3 pieces of Tra...

  • Outsmarting Spam-Bots

    Posted on Wednesday April 18th, 2007 at 16:41 in programming

    Comment SPAM has already become a significant problem on my blog. While Askimet detects SPAM nicely, it's using a statistical approach. That means that on one hand, SPAM comments occasionally get through, so that I have to catch them during comment m...