A Web-GUI is different from a Desktop-GUI and vice-versa. Don’t just copy designs from one world to the other – it’s a lot of work and only a few people appreciate it in the end.
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Marketecture
Voici un mème qui va se propager à la vitesse de la lumière
A Marchitecture is an architecture produced for marketing reasons, normally by a vendor. It is designed to put the vendor in the best possible light by emphasising the positive as well as hiding the negative. If you are in marketing you will spell it Marketecture.”
(Via labnotes)
Xml content management system
W. Eliot Kimber a consacré la majorité de sa carrière à la mise en place de systèmes de gestion/publication/édition de documents.
Dans la série de billets ci-dessous ils nous livre sa vision d’un système de gestion de contenu xml idéal. Si vous travaillez sur un tel système, c’est une véritable mine d’or. C’est une longue lecture, plutôt ardue, mais avec ce qu’il faut d’humour. Dans la citation ci-dessous remplacez “Innodata Isogen” par le nom de votre SSII et avouez que vous y avez déjà pensez plus d’une fois:
The last thing you want to have to do is call Innodata Isogen to help you figure out how to get your stuff into and out of the tool you’ve already bought. Not that we’re not happy to help but we’d rather not see you be in that position at all. We’d rather you hired us to quickly implement the exact functionality you need, cleanly and efficiently, rather than bang our heads against some product that resists all our efforts to bend it to our will. We like to have fun in our jobs too.
Et voici la liste non exhaustive des billets à lire…
XML Content Management: Where to Start?
XML Content Management the Dr. Macro Way: Simple Is Good
XCMTDMW: Characteristics of an XML CMS
XCMTDMW: Subversion Cooler Than Realized
XCMTDMW: XIRUSS Demonstration XML-Aware CMS
XCMTDMW: Characteristics of an XML CMS, Part 2
XCMTDMW: Re-Use and Not Really Re-Use
XCMTDMW: Has it Really Been 11 Years?
XCMTDMW: Import is Everything, Part 2
XCMTDMW: Import is Everything, Part 3
Rushing an architecture
Rushing an architecture is like trying to make a pregnant woman have a baby in less than nine months: It may be medically possible, but it is risky for the baby.
free developer cycles
But sure, I’d like free CPU cycles too. I just happen to care much more about free developer cycles and am willing to trade the former for the latter.