I had a great time at today’s Raleigh MSDN Code Camp. There’s nothing better than geeking out with a bunch of guys and gals who are as passionate about this stuff as you are!
For anyone who couldn’t attend, here’s a a local copy of my presentation, User Friendly Exception Handling Strategies (3mb zip). This includes the PowerPoint presentation plus the three VS.NET 2003 demo solutions.
Most discussions show a bit of information next to each user:
What message does this send?
* The only number you can control printed next to your name is post count.
* Everyone who reads this will see your current post count.
* The more you post, the bigger that number next to
I’ve long believed that the design of your software has a profound impact on how users behave within your software. But there are two sides to this story:
* Encouraging the “right” things by making those things intentionally easy to do.
* Discouraging the “wrong” things by making those things intentionally
I’m getting pretty sick of being nagged to install your damn apps.
XKCD helpfully translates:
Yeah, there are smart app banners, which are marginally less annoying, but it’s amazing how quickly we went from “Cool! Phone apps that finally don’t suck!” to this sad, eye rolling, oh-great-of-course-you-have-an-app-too
For the last year or so, I’ve been getting these two page energy assessment reports in the mail from Pacific Gas & Electric, our California utility company, comparing our household’s energy use to those of the houses around us.
Here’s the relevant excerpts from the latest report;
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask us to confront
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?
(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on for so much
