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Semicolon
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Software development, the Internet and you. Building software, C++, Java, WordPress, the Web and more.
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Recent Posts
Don’t Make Me Think! — Steve Krug
To mark World Usability Day 2009, here’s a review of a classic book on usability for web sites and applications. A lot of the information and advice seems obvious once you’ve read it, but judging by the websites that litter the web, it&#...
Undo is better than Confirm
Consider a Delete button in an application. Click the button and something gets deleted. But what if you click it by accident? Two approaches are commonly recommended: Confirm: Require the user to confirm the action before doing it Undo: Do the acti...
Forms that Work — Jarrett & Gaffney
Forms That Work is a practical book dedicated to making web forms usable and useful. It gathers a heap of information together, with helpful summaries and guidelines to make it easy to create web forms that people will actually use. Here is a summar...
Web Word Wizardry — Rachel McAlpine
I read this good short guide to writing for the web a year or two ago. Even though the book is a few years old now, its advice is still relevant: Web technologies change quickly, but the rules for good web writing are the same now as they were when t...
Search Meter WordPress plugin version 2.6
Version 2.6 of Search Meter, my WordPress search statistics plugin, is out now. This version has been upgraded to work with the latest version of PHP (5.3), and the search widgets now integrate better with WordPress 2.8 themes. The other change is th...
Letting Go of the Words — Ginny Redish
“Writing web content that works” is the subtitle of this book, and it delivers a thorough treatment of the topic. I don’t think it contains any radical new ideas, but it is a nicely organised compilation of what some people call &#...
