@geeksam Thank you so much for the Think Like a Git. Excellent work! I can't recommend it enough to people around me. :) # It take 3 times for my Chrome to open LiveJournal page. First try – blank page. Second – page title only. Third refresh – full page. Weird. # New note : … Continue reading Day in brief – 2011-10-28
This xkcd comic strip nails one of the most frequent problems with modern web interfaces. Â Web forms will ask you confirm and re-confirm anything and everything, but the actual important information that is easy to make a mistake with. Â The rule of thumb here is, of course, only ask to confirm the password fields, because … Continue reading The important field
Being a sysadmin and web developer I read plenty of technical documentation – manuals, tutorials, howtos, and so on and so forth. Most of it is usually very dry and boring. Unless, of course, we are talking about Open Source Software. That area is often very human, with plenty of humor and an excellent examples. … Continue reading Think Like a Git
Back in February 2009, Paul Graham shared the lessons he’d learned from a side project of his – social news website Hacker News. Â I’ve read it back then, of course, but once again someone pointed out to me the value of that article and I went back. Â It is a must read for any web … Continue reading Lessons learned from a social news website
I had an interesting idea today, which somehow transformed into a rather lengthy thought train, which, in turn, pushed me to browse quite a bit of Wikipedia, and, finally, to write this blog post. Â It’s just one of those things that I spent some time thinking about which has no practical purpose rather then … Continue reading Doctor ibn Engineer