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25 June 2007
Usability: Build better software with naive testers

It's 1:00 AM in the morning. I have spent several hours trying to debug a major issue on the image synchronization service of our product. An issue so trivial I am clueless where to look-up into. Is it on the windows service deployed on web server, or on the windows forms CRM module, or on stored... Read More...

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04 April 2007
ASP.NET: Url-Rewriting In Migrated Website

Wow, it was January since my last post! sorry guys I'm was very busy coding, monitoring our house' dev't in province, preparing my relocation and some business matters. Anyway, a fellow filipino developer at msforums.ph raised the question if its true that URl-Rewriting "damage"... Read More...

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05 January 2007
Dev't: Keep It Simple And Stupid (KISS) Principle

When was the last time you heard it from your boss telling you to just keep it simple and stupid. Stay with the baseline and no more. When I was working in an ISV, it bugs me almost everyday trying to simplify things and working out on features to be more and more usable in various types of users, from... Read More...

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14 December 2006
.NET: Increase Application Perf with ViewState Persistence Tweaks and Optimizations

I was amazed most of us hate ASP.NET ViewState for its default poor implementation which if not taken into cosideration would kill our applications performance, client resources, and drive shoppers away. Its frutrating... If worst case you haven't heard of ViewState and I assume you are probably new... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, usability and design, tektips, optimization, compression, viewstate, performance tuning

03 December 2006
.NET: In the midst of CSS browser incompatibilities, use conditional comment flags

I hope that one day I will wake up that all web-shoppers are using IE7, firefox and opera... and IE6 will be burned into forgetten in the e-commerce arena. I hate it when simple CSS rules never worked on IE but works fine on Firefox, Opera and Safari where 80% of our consumers uses IE6 and 20% users... Read More...

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08 November 2006
L10N: The world is flat, start localization on your database

When you are developing software product to be catered to diverse customers, it must be a standard to localized your software. With .NET this has never been easy, on .NET 2.0 its even easier with striongly typed resource files. But localizing application must be part of the architectture and should not... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, sql server , ASP.NET, usability and design, Development Process, how to, L10N, localization, scripts, stored procedures, user interface, sql, sequel server

29 August 2006
Usability: Severity of Irresponsible Posting

Last night I had a chance to visit a local online bookstore, its http://mybookstore.ph/ . The UI was neat and easy to use, points given to its great (PHP developer). Browsing around their collections of programming books I found an item which is really surprising. Professional XML Schemas book by Wrox... Read More...

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19 July 2006
SEO: Jollibee.com.ph Uses Black Hat Techniques

I found this from Isulong SEOPH blog which I am tracking down for quite sometime since SEO Philippines started their contest. Jolllibee's website violated Google's web master guidelines by using repeated keyworsd, hidden texts and doorway pages. Btyw, jollibee indeed uses earthworms on their patties... Read More...

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18 July 2006
Usability: In Navigation, Left is best?

I found this on an email sent by friend from Philippine Usability Group (usability-ph) . Read More...

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01 June 2006
When Personalization Comes to Worst

Personalization extends the site to allow users to do customization such as allowing html tags, adding videos and images, customizing layout, and drag-n-drap on some website sections. A simple change of theme is personalization in someway. When i was in an internet cafe in Batangas I have observed many... Read More...

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08 March 2006
UI Design is more difficult task than coding

I've been developing applications for almost 2 years from now and as I experienced, designing effective user interface is harder than program coding. Well, maybe because its my first time to join an ISV where software is very focused on usability, user experience and efficiency. One interesting story... Read More...

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