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Monday, 15 December 2008
Zeldman offers some humourous, yet frighteningly real, signs you don’t want that new web project.
Once I had a good laugh, I realised that I’ve actually encountered #3, #7, #9, #17 and #20 on more than one occasion.
Monday, 3 November 2008
Having worked with a couple of web application frameworks over the last couple of years, I got thinking.
Why is it that almost all the largest, busiest and most successful websites weren’t developed with a framework? Why didn’t the developers of Wikipedia, Facebook or Wordpress choose to use Symfony, Codeigniter, Mojavi or any of the other frameworks which claim to be the best?
Is it something to do with the reality that they’re often too complicated to learn in the first place? And even when they’re put to actual use on real websites, even the best ones are so bloated, that they simply crawl along at a snail’s pace?
Monday, 10 March 2008
Good news for standards based developers. Microsoft have now decided that IE8 will comply with web standards by default.
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Monday, 21 January 2008
So says the slogan on most of the product pages at Getprice, the Aussie online comparison shopping resource. Their contact page event tells us that:
“Our online merchants display their products with us so that you don’t need to visit various sites to compare and price what you need. Getprice does this for you making shopping easier, cheaper, and safer than ever before.”
Which is all very nice, except that if their software is too dumb or their online merchants deliberately or accidentally pollute the data they supply to Getprice, then it doesn’t make that service very “safe” or “easier”, does it? Take this example, for instance:
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Saturday, 8 September 2007
The SMH Blog reports on Westpac’s continuing problems:
“Thousands of Westpac customers went without their internet banking and online broking services for most of yesterday following a website glitch which, as of this morning, has still not been completely fixed.”
Q: Is this the same bank known for its crippled pages and worst website presentation?
A: Yes.
Q: Is this the same bank which has done a major visual “makeover” but then forgot to fix their usability and accessibility flaws?
A: Yes.
Q: If you put lipstick on a pig, is it still a pig?
A: Yes.
My second candidate for the web monkeys of the year award.
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