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• Labelling people "advanced" is done by beginners.

  If you ask a user if they're advanced, the answer they give will have nothing to do with the settings you're trying to determine... Posted Dec 10 2003, 08:21 AM by philipr with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: development, rant

• For most developers, it's not about tweaking performance

  Due to quick feedback (out of band) about size and relevence to .net, I have moved my response to this post from Critical Section to a “story“. You can find it here . Sorry to those that saw this in the aggregators. Posted Nov 04 2003, 11:01 AM by philipr with | with no comments Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• Are consistent user interfaces a thing of the past?

  Many people have seen the new Avalon UI paradigm, and the ease with which one can "skin" an Avalon app. Many of those people are concerned (rightly, I think) that this means that every app out there will depart completely from UI standards that we all... Posted Nov 03 2003, 08:44 AM by philipr with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• gSOAP 2.3.8, and you do care.

  From Dave Bettin - gSOAP 2.3.8 : We are pleased to announce the gSOAP 2.3.8 stable release for C and C++ Web services: ** Support for ANSI C and C++, including STL and templates ** Full support for SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 ** Full support for WSDL 1.1 (WSDL document... Posted Oct 31 2003, 05:00 PM by philipr with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• Lorem Ipsum backfires in ironic manner.. film at 11

  Don Box is pointed to the Lorem Ipsum page by Nikhil ... Hoax or not, many people use Lorem Ipsum text to keep people from being distracted by real text. It's supposed to stop things like these in a graphic layout design session: A business stakeholder... Posted Oct 25 2003, 12:45 AM by philipr with | with no comments Filed under: development, rant