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The Paradox of Choice

July 13th, 2006

I don’t like to just link to stuff, but outsourcing choice at 37 signals is worth linking to. The post talks about designing interfaces with fewer choices. Really, the interesting thing here is Barry Schwartz and his book, The paradox of Choice. The paradox of choice being that having more choices makes [...]

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James Gosling on PHP

March 11th, 2006

James Gosling, the “father of Java,” recently commented on PHP:

“PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems,” he continued, “but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance [...]

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Extreme Simplicity

March 1st, 2006

Could this be the manifesto of “Extreme Simplicity?”

10 fundamental rules for the age of user experience technology:

More features isn’t better, it’s worse.
You can’t make things easier by adding to them.
Confusion is the ultimate deal-breaker.
Style matters
Only features that provide a good user experience will be used.
Any feature that requires learning will only be adopted by a [...]

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Zend PHP Framework not a rumor

October 18th, 2005

There is a sparse FAQ up at zend for PHP Collaboration Project. Looks like there is definitely a framework involved. (The eclipse stuff is nice, too, but my interest is in frameworks.)

Q: Describe the Zend PHP Framework. What is it and why is it needed?
A: Anyone building industrial-grade PHP applications knows there’s [...]

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