Three different blogs; three different audiences; three different browser market shares:
From www.evilzenscientist.com – a tech blog, visited by technical people. 69% Firefox.
From a scout web site that I run. 59% Internet Explorer
From my family blog – most of my extended family have Firefox.
Interesting.
Another good post from the development team for Vista – Vista User Experience Guidelines. The summary are the ‘Vista User Experience – Top Rules‘
I think it’s important that Microsoft are flagging the ‘visual treat’ that will be Vista. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 has great visuals – it’s good that this is being flagged across all desktop OS.
Rule 12: Reserve development time for “fit and finish”!
To deliver high-quality fit and finish, build in time to attend to UI details. Scheduling time for a visual clean-up at pixel level, layout corrections (alignment, spacing), and other visual “fit and finish” is as important as it is to schedule time for bug fixing and other types of quality control.
Perception is reality, and if your customers don’t experience quality in your product throughout, they may conclude there is lack of quality everywhere. A visual bug seen by all your customers might do more damage to your program’s reputation than a rarely occurring crashing bug.
A colleague from Novell moved to Collanos – I looked at their products – and it’s interesting.
The Collanos Workplace seems to fill several of my needs for working with my team:
– document sharing and management
– team task lists
– discussions
– cross platform
Most importantly – the model is peer-to-peer. That means that none of my ‘corporate data’ ever lives on someone elses server. That was one of the major downsides to using something like Backpack or Basecamp. (Cool – but kinda interesting from a risk and security angle).
By having this ‘built’ and in the web it also means I don’t have to build an internal server, manage it, keep it safe, back it up – and also use VPN to get data in and out of it.
Feedback soon. I’ve sent the team the data – we should be running in a couple of days.
No names..
So I’m in San Francisco at the WordPress Community geek-fest that is WordCamp.
It’s kinda interesting – the usual [x]camp format; the usual 80/20 mix of hackers and non-hackers; the lack of power outlets…
There are a lot of people here who are using WordPress and want more – there is certainly a wave of demand that could see the whole community become a lot stronger.
Spent time in a session this morning on ‘Helping out WordPress’ – the number 1 request is ‘help with support’. I’ll get with a few people and see what can really be done.
After working with Ximian for three years – I’m really wary of reliance on the community; I know it’s active; but without clout nothing moves.
Oh – and I gave out a stack of openSUSE 10.1 DVDs – as well as the link to the running WordPress on openSUSE article that I threw together. I was branded a dreadful person from corporate land for that. The folks at WordCamp who got the openSUSE DVDs were happy though.
As promised here is the ‘HOW-TO’ for running WordPress on openSUSE.
This is a simple three step process:
– install and configure openSUSE
– configure apache and mysql
– install WordPress
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