Posts Tagged ‘application’
Tiered software is the answer to feature bloat
If you are an early adopter for Windows Vista, then you are probably bemoaning the fact that I would even consider such a solution to feature bloat. The last time I checked, Vista has five flavors: Ultimate, Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, and Enterprise. Running Windows XP Home Edition suites me well enough, and an upgrade to the professional version is still sitting in my desk drawer. Because of this I will not venture a critique of the Vista OS. Although, I will say that the tiered approach is a sacrificial lamb for techies who simply do not like what Vista has to offer in any version.
Simplicity is still my favorite feature
Our development team recently completed a redesign of the product page for a suite of e-commerce sites. A few new AJAX features are spread throughout, and additional DOM scripting in the guts of the application allows for some complimentary functionality. Yet, the one thing we all noticed and appreciate the most is how “clean” the new design is. Strip away all the features, and I would still be impressed by the simplicity.
The evolution of the API, or, the publisher’s dilemma
I love watching the movie The Thing. The film I speak of would be John Carpenter’s 1982 remake, and not the 1951 classic, The Thing from Another World. Eleven men are holed up in an Antarctic science research facility, and come face-to-face with an alien organism buried beneath the ice. The special effects are reminiscent of the best the industry had to offer before the onslaught of digital pictures, but they now border on camp.
