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Clearly, the sentiment goes, Metro is only for consumer apps. No real line of business work could be done using that interface. I mean, as we all know, LOB apps have to have busy, intimidating, and overly complex, fiddly UIs, right? LOB implies an unfortunate huddled mass of pitiable information workers who don't deserve usable interfaces. The Man can keep them down--because they're paid to use these apps, after all. It's just... we're using new tiles on all the TPS reports before they go out now.
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It’s like this: The browser’s doomed, because apps are the future. Wait! Apps are doomed because HTML5 is the future. I see something almost every day saying one or the other. Only it’s mostly wrong. Which wins? Depends on what you're trying to do.
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With more than 55 million iPads in use around the world and more than 400 million smartphones sold in 2011, companies are increasingly thinking “mobile first” when developing their web and mobile app strategies. Unfortunately, as companies rush to go mobile, they often overlook the importance of maintaining their global reach. That is, their mobile websites and apps don’t always support the breadth of languages and localized content supported by their PC-oriented websites. Users, users everywhere... but can they read your site?
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Today, users have many choices for synchronizing files and backing important memories and personal assets including music, pictures, notes, business documents, and other personal or business files. The offerings range from free to premium services, also known as the “freemium” model. In this post I will cover some of the pros and cons of each and some common scenarios for usage. I will also discuss what you get for free, and what some extra charges will get you an how much it will cost (measured in gigabytes per month). File storage with a silver lining.
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All things being equal, we'd all prefer to have more bandwidth rather than less. But of course, cost and availability both limit the bandwidth we can actually install, forcing organizations to consider not the amount of bandwidth that they want but rather the amount they need. They must also consider how those needs will change. So how can a smallish firm choose the right amount of bandwidth? Too much is never enough.
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Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way. Integration is the enemy of innovation.
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You can call Steve Ballmer many things, but you cannot call him the “the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today,” as Forbes' Adam Hartung did in a recent article. It's easy to see Microsoft as a bumbling fool of the tech world, but when you look closely at its business, the company's core competencies, and Ballmer's decisions, a coherent picture begins to form. It's a picture of a company being run from a very rational and respectable set of philosophies. Embrace. Extend. Repeat.
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Lorem ipsum, that place holder text that you often see in website and other graphic design, has been around since the sixteenth century by some accounts, but became popular in the 60s when Madison Avenue and the golden age of advertising took off. Its use today in web design, however, is corrupting to the point that it’s become evil. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, so I don't have to write this subhead.
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Utter nonsense.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Quote: So here’s my advice to those planning to build a website. Start with your message. Then write a story in words and surround that with whatever the lorem ipsum equivalent of graphics and images is. Once you’ve nailed your branding, messaging and story to the point where you know exactly the experience you want, only then do you commission expert designers and programmers to manifest your vision.
Total crap. Anyone who's ever written copy knows that you don't design around what you write, you write to fit the space your design affords.
And anyone who's ever written a website knows that getting the final copy to go into the space can be the last thing you get before you go live.
And anyone who's ever maintained a site knows there's no such thing as the final copy.
Tripe.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Quote: Before the age of Photoshop, designers would have to actually draw things so it made sense to put in filler text while the actual copy was being worked out. But today there is no need for that.
Of course not, because every page is made of static text that never changes so testing how it looks before content exists and making sure the layout is properly flexible is absurd!
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Once you’ve nailed your branding, messaging and story to the point where you know exactly the experience you want, only then do you commission expert designers and programmers to manifest your vision.
Highly not true, IMHO.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: manifest your vision.
I use whisky for that.
Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Once you’ve nailed your branding, messaging and story to the point where you
know exactly the experience you want, only then do you commission expert
designers and programmers
Prior to this stage, you hire monkeys and grave diggers.
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Hmmm. That post wasn't worth a 1. Have a 5 to compensate.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: That post wasn't worth a 1
Harsh. Not even worth the minimum rating.
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A coming Microsoft promotion will provide Windows 8 Pro to buyers of Windows 7-based PCs for just $14.99, according to my sources. The promotion begins June 2. The price is right!
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Surely it's $14.99 too much?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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It looks like you only get the offer if you buy a new Win-7 PC within the promotion date range...
.. so its more like $1,015...
Be The Noise
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They can't even give it away
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Lea Verou takes a look at some of the misconceptions of web standards, what the W3C and its working groups actually do and how the standardisation process works. Very few browser prefixes were damaged in the creation of this article.
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Yep. That's what I get for taking a week off: way behind the news. New items incoming.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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That just links back to the message you were replying to.
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Alas, haste maketh waste.
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