2005 Predictions
January 3, 2005
Another year, another round of predictions. As is now becoming customary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those predictions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP experienced tremendous growth in 2004 but it was just the beginning. This year, much more will happen in that space. Cable […]
Usability 101: Satisfaction
June 26, 2003
Today, we continue the Usability 101 series by exploring the concept of satisfaction. I can’t get no… satisfaction As much as we’d like it to, users are not using our software because of love for developers. They are using it to accomplish a task. How satisfied they are with usability of the software package they use […]
Usability Bazaar: Goals
June 13, 2003
In yesterday’s entry, I announced the launch of a new mailing list dedicated to usability in Open Source software. However, I had not clearly stated goals. Here are some of my thoughts on what we could accomplish. Good/Bad Practice In this first step, we would highlight good and bad usability issues with major open source products. However, part […]
Usability Bazaar
June 12, 2003
Over the past few days, I’ve been doing some research for an easy-to-use web-based open-sourced content management system. The basic system needs to be usable by several people and needs to be simple. In the process, though, I have learned that simplicity is hard to do. The main challenge comes from the fact that most software developers […]
Open Source IIS
April 14, 2000
Shame on Microsoft! Today, it was announced that the Redmond company had send out version of its IIS 4.0 server with a backdoor. At the height of its war with Netscape, Microsoft engineers included a secret backdoor password using the phrase Netscape engineers are weenies! into version of IIS. As a result, Anyone writing a script that would access […]
