Posts for January, 2008

Jan 30, 2008

5 Whys

I came across the 5 Whys (via Jason Kottke), and was extremely pleased to find it as a technique used in Toyota. For quite sometime I have been consciously trying to ask a series of Whys during designing to arrive at either a business decision or a fact. It saves from making assumptions about hidden and underlying purposes. [Continue]

Jan 29, 2008

Nokia Buys Trolltech, Enters Cross-Platform Open Source World

Nokia wants to build its edge through cross-platform software, and has done a deal to acquire Trolltech (via Engadget). I have known Trolltech as the company behind the excellent Qt toolkit which powers my favorite desktop environment KDE. But it also has its counterpart for the mobile world - Qtopia. [Continue]

Jan 27, 2008

Simplicity And Quick To Use

I find a lot of confusion around the two phrases - simplicity and quick to use. I find people replacing one by the other and trying to judge a tool’s design. Is every simple product quick to use? [Continue]

Jan 26, 2008

How Much Would The Website Earn?

This question has troubled me a lot. I have not been able to answer it satisfactorily. And imagine my restlessness when this one of the most popular first questions with which a discussion about a website starts, even when it is in the conception stage. [Continue]

Jan 24, 2008

IE8 Meta Declaration Not Required For HTML5

In the whole backlash of the IE8 announcement, an important piece of information got overshadowed. If you use HTML5, you can skip the effort for version targeting. So, use HTML5 and then you can forget about coding for browsers. [Continue]

Jan 24, 2008

Where Is The Engineering In Your Work?

Ravi Mohan is very close to getting a lot of employers upset by explaining how a lot of software professionals, who are given the post of a software engineers, are in fact not engineers. If you don’t use mathematics in your day to day work, you aren’t (an engineer). All engineers (say those who build bridges, or space craft, or cars) make heavy use of mathematics and/or hard sciences like Physics on a regular basis. [Continue]

Jan 23, 2008

IE8 Meta Tag, Getting Worse Through Standards

When a popular tool deviates from the standards, a lot of development using it deviates too. And that is what happened with IE 6, and a lot of sites developed to work around its deviations. So much so that, the deviations from the standards were very close to becoming the new standards themselves. [Continue]

Jan 22, 2008

Telegraph Takes OpenID Mainstream

Munir Umrani notes that the Telegraph is going to make OpenID mainstream by becoming a provider. The Telegraph will soon become the first newspaper in the world, and the first British media company, to become an OpenID provider. Readers will be able to begin using the service from the end of February. [Continue]

Jan 20, 2008

I Keep Timesheets For Myself

Timesheets are only wastage of paper for some, for some they are evidence of the work, for some they translate into money and for some they are just more things to talk about at meetings. I have had a love-hate relationship with them. I started by disliking them, but later realized what I could gain from them. [Continue]

Jan 19, 2008

Qt Goes GPLv3

Trolltech has adopted GPLv3 for cross-platform open source application development toolkit Qt. It is important to note that this is an addition to its availability under GPLv2, meaning it will be available under both licenses. This indicates that even KDE might go GPLv3 in its further releases. [Continue]

Posts for January, 2008

5 Whys

Nokia Buys Trolltech, Enters Cross-Platform Open Source World

Simplicity And Quick To Use

How Much Would The Website Earn?

IE8 Meta Declaration Not Required For HTML5

Where Is The Engineering In Your Work?

IE8 Meta Tag, Getting Worse Through Standards

Telegraph Takes OpenID Mainstream

I Keep Timesheets For Myself

Qt Goes GPLv3

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