Accessibility, Web Design, Web based Application
You rarely get the chance to develop a GUI from scratch, but it’s a very rewarding experience to deliver a useful and usable application that your customers actually enjoy working with.
I think every developer cares about usability, but there is a difference between caring about and actually creating a usable application. Since my time at Sun working with some great HCI engineers there, I’ve gained a deeper appreciation of the design and development process.
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Best analysis and design practices for a UI include:
- use multiple techniques for gathering requirements, especially:
- issuing standard document templates to elicit common information and to raise a few thought-provoking questions
- reading documents prepared by the customer or from the business domain
- structured interviews and both single- and multi-role brainstorming sessions with different types of user or customer
- visiting and observing the customer at their workplace or (better) workstation (see Gemba for some specific practices)
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Full article: http://colmsmyth.blogspot.com
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Web Performance, Web based Application
I found these informative links in my research into high performance web application platform and thought you might find them useful as well.
To start off, A Comparison of Portable Dynamic Web Content Technologies for the Apache Server provides good overview of the choices. I think its numbers for Java Servlets are somewhat off, but not enough to affect the conclusions. FastCGI + Perl was the clear winner in the paper, followed by mod_perl. Only surprise was the poor performance of PHP. mod_python was not test unfortunately.
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Full article: http://www.docuverse.com
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Indexed in May 2008
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Ajax, Mobile Web, Web based Application
The release of the iPhone in recent months and the release of it’s baby, the iPhone without a phone, crazed apple fans and even non-believers of Apple. Here we have something that’s really powerful compared to other available phones..
However, there were also curious developers who asked Apple what would be the next generation of platform for the new program that will run on their phones. Apple timidly answered, “Ajax is the development platform”.
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We already have seen the power of Ajax on our computers and we can’t seem to get enough out of it. With Ajax, we experienced better interaction with our computer. Ajax tries to predict our thinking and of course it will reduce the need to have a higher internet connection since the power will be PC based. That notion is perfect for the mobile technology since it will eliminate the need of having a stronger internet connection..
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Full article: http://www.ajaxwith.com
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Indexed in May 2008
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Accessibility, Sound and speech, Text and Font, Web based Application
The ability to convert speech-to-text and text-to-speech is an amazing technology development with multiple applications. The software solutions I’ve heard the most about when it comes to speech to text functionality is Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM ViaVoice..
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When it comes to converting text to speech, Talkr is the main website I’m familiar with (and have integrated here on my blog) which creates (for free) an audio podcast of text entries on any blog.
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Full article: http://www.speedofcreativity.org
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Indexed in April 2008
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Framework, Web based Application
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Ruby Waves is a new Web application framework for Ruby, developed by Dan Yoder. On the surface, this makes it seem “Rails-like” but Waves is billing itself as a “next-generation” framework, a cutting edge Rails-inspired framework, if you will..
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Full article: http://www.rubyinside.com
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Web Performance, Web based Application
When designing the architecture for a web application, it is normally desirable to design every aspect of the system to be as scalable as possible. It’s only too often that badly designed apps have need to be completely refactored before any further development work can be done, entirely due to an unscalable architecture..
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The question it raises, however, is where do we stop? At what point does multiple levels of abstraction stop saving development time and start taking its toll on performance?
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Full article: http://allinthehead.com/retro/213/scalability-vs-performance
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Framework, Free for Web, Ruby on Rails, Web based Application
For far too long Ruby has lacked a development environment that supported important features developers in other languages now take for granted: code completion; refactoring; platform-independence; and speed..
Getting started with Ruby, Rails and NetBeans is as easy as downloading the installer and running it.
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Full article: http://depth-first.com
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Tools, Web based Application
Web applications are not yet as powerful as desktop applications. One of the big problems is that when no live network connection is available, users can’t use the application or its data. Dojo Offline Toolkit is a small package that could enable compatible web applications to work offline.
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The idea is that web applications would continue to work offline, even though the server doesn’t push any data.
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Full article: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com
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Indexed in April 2008
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Database, Free for Web, Web Articles for Dummies, Web based Application
Introduction
This document answers the question that some clients ask: “Why use PostgreSQL (as opposed to MySQL, Oracle, MS-Access, FoxPro, etc.) for web application development?” PostgreSQL is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that Summersault prefers as the back-end data management component for the database driven websites that we develop..
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Choosing PostgreSQL
We’ll address a couple of key factors that one should look at in choosing an RDBMS for a production-quality web application, and why we think PostgreSQL comes out on top for our typical application needs:
- General Advantages
- Features
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Full article: http://support.summersault.com/why_postgresql.html
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Web based Application
Life has become much easier and simpler with internet. With CRM web based Solutions, you can instantly solve your customer problems. You can also interact with them and get acquaint with their headache. It is less expensive and easily accessible. Not only big but also small organizations are making use of it..
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Full article: http://www.articlesbase.com
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Indexed in March 2008
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