Archive for the ‘Human Computer Interaction’ Category
PHP on IIS
I’ve been playing around with IIS recently. The Windows/IIS community is not nearly as well served by Open Source as the competition, which is unfortunate given that IIS is a really popular platform for intranets and other enterprise applications. It’s not really fair to ask your IT department to support Apache + MySQL as well [...]
Lunch and Adventure, my new blog: loudlunch.com
Hey all, I’ve been busy blogging at work behind the firewallz so I haven’t been so keen on updating my personal blog. But I have been pretty passionate about lunch-time lately. So in that vein, I decided to start writing about it on a new blog, Loud Lunch.
Loud Lunch will be dedicated to my favourite [...]
Getting lucky with free mobile WiFi
Like lots of people in tech, I have a Blackberry with WiFi. Regardless of how good Rogers has been with their 3G network, WiFi is faster to browse with, and free-er. With that in mind, I’ve added my home and work WiFi networks to my connections (Manage Connections -> Set Up WiFi Network), and just [...]
TorCHI Presentation: Sprint Zero and Agile Design
My co-workers Khan and Brian and myself went to the University of Toronto for a presentation at TorCHI. It was by Lynn Miller, a Senior Manager at AutoDesk (Maya, 3DSMax, AutoCAD, etc.)
The presentation was about Sprint Zero: the lead-up work that is required before a team embarks on an Agile project, or any [...]
Blue Beanie Day 2009 @ Desire2Learn
blue beanie day. Originally uploaded by jclhicks.
So some of the design and standards people at work wore blue toques today in celebration/encouragement of designing with web standards:
Doug Vos’ Writeup on Blue Beanie Day 2009
If you’re interested in showing some web-standards solidarity, take a look at the Facebook group. We’ve been really struggling at the bleeding [...]
The birth of the Microsoft Office “Ribbon”
New ideas for user interface components don’t come by very often. For example, the pointer, icons, and toolbars have been around since the late 1970’s courtesy of the work done at Xerox PARC. It’s safe to say that the computing environment in the late 70’s was quite a bit different than it is today, so [...]
My new Dell Mini 10v: The First Day
Since I haven’t bought a laptop in over 3 years, I decided to follow the trend and pick up one of the ultra-portable notebooks / netbooks. After reading some reviews, I picked up this Dell Mini 10v. It arrived today, only seven days after I placed the order via a Dell Chat.
Rather than offering [...]
Internet Literacy in Education
Wanted to share a pretty great video about internet media literacy, and higher education. For someone finishing up a Masters, some of the points he makes ring very loudly. From the YouTube video:
Recently Dr. Wesch spoke at the University of Manitoba where he explained the the basis of this video in a talk entitled, [...]