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A Blog Without Comments Is Not a Blog

James Bach responded to my recent post, Are You Following the Instructions on the Paint Can?, with Studying Jeff Atwood's Paint Can. I didn't realize how many assumptions I made in that post until I read Mr. Bach's pointed response. The most amusing assumption

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gui programming

Death to the Dialog Box

One of the unnecessary evils of GUI programming is the "Process Dialog Box" – what we think of as MessageBox.Show. You know, like this: All kidding aside, these dialogs are frequently abused for displaying all kinds of trivial information to the user, a mistake that Alan Cooper calls

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