The Real Adam Always course correcting

Posts from October 2007

Your target feature

Wherein I equate project management and celebrity reality shows


Rejiggering meets build versus buy

Wherein I can post to my weblog with aplomb and/or contemplate build vs. buy


Application Design with Garrett Dimon

Wherein Garrett puts a little hope in my heart


My ‘hood, then and now

Wherein I splice together two cool images


“Rap” the white guy can “dance” to

Wherein I comment on tracks that I enjoy but tastefully refuse to dance to


This memory isn’t going to manage itself

Wherein I blabber on about attempting to not leak memory in C


Alex the cognitive parrot

Wherein the talking parrot outsmarts the four-year old


“Business” lunch

Wherein I photograph my dog at lunch


Making the simple complex

Wherein I express my dislike for the generic


Making sense of Fitts’ Law

Particle Tree has an excellent article on Fitts’ Law. That’s the one that, amongst other thing, leads to putting the Dock and Start Menu buttons on the edges of the screen. You definitely want to check it out, if only for the terrific images used as demonstration, like this one:

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