May 2006 - Posts

• Candy Machine interfaces

  A system with a "candy machine interface" is one where the user interface is so poor it guides you into the wrong action. The term was coined in the seminal book "Writing Solid Code" by Steve Maguire many years ago. A similar meme Read More... Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:19 AM by rbirkby | 2 Comments

• XHTML Compliance

  ASP.Net v2 was touted as being XHTML through and through. I'd like to take this opportunity to take Microsoft to task for not making the Trace output XHTML compliant. [Please ignore the fact that trace output is tacked onto the end of a request making Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:10 PM by rbirkby | 0 Comments