Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Windows 7 Has a Whopper of a Promotion in Japan - on The Food Channel: "Microsoft has partnered with Burger King in Japan, promoting its new Windows 7 operating system with a 7-pattie Whopper available for only 7 days. It’s called, naturally, the “Windows 7 Whopper.”"
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
10 commandments for software(development)
Ten commandments where software(developers and others) should abide by:
- You shall be swift and accurate in responding to the user's commands and you shall therefore not keep the user waiting for something he did not ask for.
- You shall be swift, accurate, clear and understandable in communicating with your user.
- You shall not waste memory nor shall you waist processor time or network bandwidth.
- You shall not offer the user more functionality and information than he can handle.
- You shall not distract the user with information he does not want or need at that particular moment.
- You shall not force the user to take action when he does not need to, that is: when work is not in jeopardy.
- You shall not force the user to unnecessarily update or upgrade.
- You shall not force the user to uniquely commit to one technology, company, organisation or group of persons.
- You shall not seduce the user to communicate only by computer and thus neglect face-to-face communication.
- You shall not make your favorite platform or technology into a religion.