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Winning people over by usability. But what about user profiles, data breaches and privacy concerns?

Posted on April 8, 2008. Filed under: A List Apart, Blogger.com, GMail, Google, Wordpress.com, Xing, data breaches, distrust, personal data footprint, privacy, privacy concerns, social network, suggested reads, usability | Tags: , , , , , , |

In my previous post, I introduced usability in general as a tool to lower the hurdles that might afflict random passers-by to become users of your service. Even more, usability provides you with chances to discern your service from alternative services, it’s relatively simple to implement and, once established, in your process of design and [...]

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Usability. To convince people of your service. Get out word of mouth.

Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: G Reynolds, Presentation Zen, accessibility, chances to learn, gaining users, hassles in usage, human computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, navigability, rules of thumb, series of posts, suggested reads, usability, useful links | Tags: , , , , |

In my previous article, Gaining users. Lessons learned from blogging., I looked into the question how to gather audience for a blog and what influences most whether people stay or leave. The conclusion I’ve taken so far is that whatever you offer, you need to win over people for whatever step you want them to [...]

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First tranche of Rails links: recommended readings, podcast, where to get help

Posted on March 21, 2008. Filed under: A Cangiano, Edge Rails, P Marklund, R Daigle, Rails 2, Rails Envy, Rails podcasts, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, books, getting help, presentations, slides, suggested reads | Tags: , |

On Rails, I have a real lot of useful links. As there are so many of them, similarly to the previous postings here, I partition this topic. To provide you with the most useful part first, I skip the special Rails 2.0 features, Rails Plug-Ins and the Rathole gem, what a Rails project does look [...]

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Missed the point: Rake is not a custom-made tool for Rails

Posted on March 19, 2008. Filed under: Bash, J Weirich, M Fowler, N Seckar, Rake, Ruby, Ruby Shell, Ruby on Rails, Rush, suggested reads | Tags: , , |

As there’s still a lot of links cumulated on Ruby and Rails I have to walk through (and am about to blog about), I am glad to be able to present you today what I learned about Rails and Rake. Apparently, it’s a common mis-assumption, Rake were made for Rails.
 
To get an impression of what’s [...]

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a small collection of what is worth a read to get into Ruby itself

Posted on March 17, 2008. Filed under: B Schröder, Ruby, relevant mailing lists, slides, suggested reads | Tags: , , , |

My online search for a barebone Rails social networks framework respectively for tools necessary to develop one yourself, I naturally came across several useful links on Ruby and/or Rails. As Rails has the longer list and I am short in time, I begin by doing the Ruby share first, and there with my suggestions on [...]

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social network development resources page + two noteworthy reads

Posted on March 17, 2008. Filed under: MP Moore, Ruby, online books, productivity, suggested reads | Tags: , , , , , |

Since about March 5th, 2008, I was researching material for getting an idea ow which are the parts of a generated, mostly empty — i.e. basic — rails project, and how these parts intertwine. On this, I might do a summing up post the next few days, but to get rid of a pair of [...]

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