please find the attached interesting links for this week as provided by trevor and tim this week in edge rails it certainly hasnt looked like a holiday week in edge rails. things are moving fast with some major changes afoot for version 2.3 of rails. tada list on rails 2.2 passenger and ec2 if you havent documented your server deployment process in code or experimented with t......
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the increasing importance of discoverability nick bradbury the 32 external css files limitation of internet explorer and more martin ivanov omezeni ie vsouvislosti scss soubory. footer link optimization for search engines user experience rand fishkin oodkazech vpati strnky.......
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smart software should get out of your way it looks like youre writing smart software would you like help tags usability simplicity design software 7 wonders of the modern world. which edge are you on today tags indexed visualization humor culture the government crash no individual would be able to get away with managing their finances this way y......
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the iphone also made me see tons of flaws in the software ive created the biggest being that ive tried to please power users by making too many nonessential details configurable and doing so in a way that intimidates new users.a i mistook complexity for power and that wasnt smart. nick bradbury......
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...nest when i first tried vista on my dell laptop i also thought it sucked. it was slow it crashed all the time and i couldnt see any compelling nick bradbury httpnic k.typepad. com 15 windows vista crea teipforwar dentry24 0qu ot memory corruption a vulnerability has been reported in microsoft windows vista which can be exploited by malici...
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feeddemon the best desktop rss feed reader for windows in my view will soon be out in a new version 2.8. as is typical in much software development these days beta versions of the new release are publicly available for testing or trying out always with the caveat that they are beta versions and so unexpected things might happen. ive been using feeddemon since version 1.5 bet......
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filed under internet windows freeware beta yesterday bradsoft announced the second beta of feeddemon 2.8 the popular desktop newsreader for windows. bugfix work continues and the user interface has been streamlined which developer nick bradbury refers to as toolbutton slaughter . the new sharing and tagging icons caused some overcrowding but users who st......
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the value of automated error reporting the past few releases of feeddemon have an included an error reporting feature which captures unexpected problems and sends us detailed reports on what went wrong.a if youve never seen this......
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last week i went on a toolbutton slaughter and now the carnage has expanded to the icons in feeddemons newspaper. each article in a feeddemon newspaper has a series of icons beneath it and over time the number of icons has grown to the point that theyve become a serious distraction. for example with the addition of the sharing and tagging icons in the upcoming feeddemon 2.8......
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dc data catalog tags opendata government feeds zengestrom.com social objects power stickiness and love tags social objects socialnetworking anthropology networks somesso zurich the social media conference social media ......
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looking back at early versions of feeddemon its obvious that i was raised in the microsoft office school of userinterface design. namely fill your application with toolbuttons the majority of which most people will never use. here for example is what the toolbars in the first version of feeddemon looked like what on earth was i thinking there were so many toolb......
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public beta of feeddemon 2.8 within the next 10 days......
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its a common complaint of software developers their customers keep asking for features that already exist. thats happened to me more times than i can count and it used to frustrate me until i realized i was the problem. i had designed those features so poorly or buried them so thoroughly that they werent being noticed. i bring this up because i keep seeing comment......
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thanks to the great feedback on my previous post ive made a couple of updates to feeddemons upcoming tagging support. first off ive added tags to feeddemons subscription tree as shown in this screenshot click to enlarge selecting a tag in the tree displays a newspaper containing all posts with that tag. ive also added suggested tags to the t......
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feeddemon is one of popular best desktop feedrss reader provides by newsgator. feeddemon lets you to sync you feeds with its online newsgator account. there are many features in feeddemon like easy to use interface customize news reading style get alerts when any new news is received etc. until few years back feeddemon was one of paid rss feed reader. but after listening to users f......
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ive been adding support for tagging to feeddemon and i wanted to pass the new features by feeddemon customers to see if im missing anything. the way it works so far is that feeddemons subscriptions home report now includes a list of tags youve used as shown in the screenshot below click to enlarge clicking one of these tags displays a newspaper showing......
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please think happy thoughts for nicks dad as he goes into round two with surgery .......
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in august my dad will once again undergo surgery which will hopefully ease the symptoms of his parkinsons disease. given the experience the last time he had surgery ive decided to take a few weeks off to take care of him in any way he needs. things will be quiet around here for a little while since i wont be blogging while im away but chances are ill still ......
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i received a ton of great feedback on yesterdays post about possibly killing feeddemons news item list my thanks to those who took the time to comment its clear that a lot of customers rely on the news item list many of whom have been using feeddemon for a long time. but its also clear that many of these customers dont realize that feeddemons newspaper view h......
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earlier today nick bradbury asked a good question about the features included in free software yesterday i wrote about killing unused features. but what about killing a feature that people do use hes talking about feeddemon and he really wants to kill a feature that i use every day. as a software developer however i understand where he is coming from. the news item l......
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its nice that i can subscribe to a feed which brings me new youtube videos but why cant i also have a feed which shows me what ive recently watched on youtube or one that lists the songs i recently previewed on itunes or how about a feed of my amazon purchases and why not a feed of the people ive met on myspace this is the kind of stuff we should demand from the services we use......
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at long last the trial version of topstyle 3.5 is now available. if youre a web authordeveloper and youre not already using topstyle why not give the trial version a spin download topstyle 3.5 trial version whats new in v3.5 more information......
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you ever watch the toaster waiting for your eggo waffle to popup it always seems to happen when you look away right for me too well here was something else that popped up when i looked away. newsgator partnered with readburner to enable newsgator users to rss the sites and stories that we feel are important to be shared via rss with others. this is a huge move toward colla......
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my esteemed colleague nick bradbury writes today about having knee surgery but expresses some concern about placing himself in the hands of a system that works using felttip pens. just before the procedure a nurse walked over with a felttipped pen and wrote yes on my right leg. when the doctor came over he confirmed it was my right knee that was being operated on and then pr......
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