Tag Archives: thoughts

Web Development and MVC: a pain somewhere, cont’d.

Our beloved model-view-controller pattern seems to act as an excuse for every damn web-framework out there. Yet there is one problem. From my point of view, no framework to date has ever managed to slice a web application in a useful way. Really. Why?
First of all, it should be clear that patterns just like MVC [...]

Password Management, 2nd approach

A while ago I developed a simple demo of an application able to log a user on to his several social homes. Feedback was poor, users are just not willing to save their passwords anywhere else but in their brains. This is funny since most users I talked to ( except some nerds ) stick [...]

Still working on usabilitizing the Web: ideas, cont’d

Hello, today I continue my list of ideas which would make the Web and Computers in General way more easier and safer to use. Although it won’t change anything, I just want to make you think about it and let me know your opinion.
I’m still a bit frustrated that there is nothing like a general [...]

Goodbye, Finland

So this is the last post from my room in Finland, tomorrow I’m heading home. I’m very grateful for the people I’ve met, the things I’ve learned and the endless nights spent on the road. Thank you all!

Still include IE6 support when creating a Web Application?

I really don’t know if i shall. And this time I’m really asking for your opinion on that, just leave a comment. A Pro is that many users in corporate environments are still forced to use our favourite old-school browsing grandpa. And excluding a mentionable amount of users just for the sake of less work? 
On [...]

Thoughts on the importance of browsers

What are browsers? They are bit like a light switched on so one can read a book. They are rather useless without any pages they can display. And still, it seems that dominating the browser market is a very attractive goal. Of course, doing that leads to the ability to control what techniques can be [...]