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Modern Teenager and advice by Dave Barry

[pq]Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. ~ Dave Barry[/pq]

Quote on pagination…

A new favorite quote, and direct support towards my advice to keep your articles in one page! Do users enjoy reading articles on websites that are split across multiple pages? Hell fucking no we don’t. Source: Has adaptive design failed? … Continue reading

The only question about user experience

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer. – Larry Tesler

A thief

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief. -Tim O’Reilly

The Universe is Winning

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -Rich Cook

QOTD – Dave Barry

Another one that wouldn’t fit on Twitter. Thanks for checking it out from my blog. Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. … Continue reading

John Wayne for QOTD

One more that’s too long for twitter. Part of my Quote a day regiment, here’s one from John Wayne: I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody … Continue reading