DISQUS

have you considered posting a big link on the top when someone is on IE 6 saying "hey does this look like crap, upgrade your browser here (with link of course) and it will be lots better". Most of us don't upgrade b/c a) we don't realize we need to and b) if we figure out we need to we are not sure what/where to go and c) we are lazy

Seems to me you could solve a and b and even some of c with this approach.

can't help but think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIpLWUT3yw

you knocked this one out of the park Frank. Awesome post.

you didn't mention how you could find google flu trends?

well I'm certainly not going to defend ERP applications and their (our) usability track record. I will say, however, that we don't just do usability testing on prototypes, we also do it on the final product and attempt to adjust to what we find. Of course, not always, but at least we do try.

The problem, as I see it, was best described to me that "UE is fashion". It changes regularly, most development of complex systems just can't keep up. Before we get it built it's out of date. The real answer is to have better architectural support for regularly changing (and updating) the UI without the cost of re-doing the application. This makes it easier to adjust to changes both from user feedback and from technology innovations. One of the whole points of a SOA is to isolate the business logic to allow for more rapid and frequent iterations of the presentation layer. Not somewhere we can get overnight but I think we really are trying to set ourselves up for better success in the future.

too funny, I had no idea. Exitstrategy gets my vote for best name.

Love Love Love my Tivo. Had a series2, upgraded to HD with the lifetime warranty. I do nothing cool with my Tivo, I don't care about games, I still use a phone line to download data and yet it works like a dream.

I was happy to increase my storage from 40 hours and get HD (and HBO) with my last upgrade. I have said often that Tivo is the best invention of the last 20 years, in my life it is equal to the remote control and far surpasses things like wireless networking and digital cameras (which I love).

My only hope is that Tivo does whatever it takes to not go out of business. I want them to survive. I don't care about the Pizza but the Netflix integration sounds awesome to me. If Tivo doesn't make it I will have regrets similar to my loss of WebVan.

love the presentation Paul. You make some excellent points, a bit sad you didn't use my digital hermit phrase.

very nice post Jake. Carl's death really hit me hard. Thanks for writing these!

My heart is so sad right now. My world just somehow got smaller for the loss of Carl.

and is there a specific camera (or series of cameras) that provides said pixel size?

Thanks Frank for showing the courage to change your mind. I find that the most impressive thing in this whole discussion.

Excellent post. I believe that a lot of HR departments would do well to pick one (and only one) thing to focus on and give it time to actually yield results. Seems often companies like the starting of things but not the on going nurturing.

Frank. Thanks for this line, I plan to use this myself at some point "...free to achieve mediocrity elsewhere." Wonderfuly said!

In Talent we now have a new product code "HRT" and those of us [ahem] wiser females find this a funny play on Hormone Replacement Therapy. We didn't do this on purpose but did add the joke after the fact.

Great day for this post as I've had to re-install and re-work a ton of applications as I "upgrade" my computer. The price of progress is really often too high for me to cope and right now I am totally frustrated as nothing is working correctly [yet].

I am soo looking forward to this, finally something to help with my sense of direction disability...fingers crossed for mothers day.

That Pedrazzi guy is up to no good these days, or at least that's what I've heard ;-)

-Meg

Jake, Interesting thoughts on this one for me as 1) I don't have a CS degree and somehow manage to be in development and 2) I was just talking with my dad last week mentioning that I don't see this as a career path that my children will have available to them, at least not the way it was for me.

I think your point about US being DIY oriented is valid but not the whole point. I think that software as an industry is changing. I think this is a reflection of that. In the US we like careers that have a large monetary upside. At least when we are young and idealistic/greedy. Thus the boom of MBAs in the 80's when we were told Greed is good and the boom in CS when the dot-com era was upon us. I think that is the real force at play here.

Obviously we are sold on the value of development blogging in Talent. As for finding time, I think I might have personally crossed a line when I was organizing my thoughts for my next blog entry at 3am on Friday morning. Not only was the time just silly, I was only awake because I was burning up with a fever and knew I had to take some tylenol to be up at 5:30am for my youngest to have surgery the next day.

Thanks again Jake for bringing us all on this journey.

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have a great trip Jake, you might want to check the boards to make sure you get the right gate this time.

Jake, can't believe the KC part of the story. Sounds like a very blonde moment for you!

David, better not put sleep too low on the list or you will not be any good at the list items above. Or maybe that is just a personal problem for me.

Jake, my comment on 8 things post still holds. You rock.
- M