useful links

Amidst the night, trapped at work, kudos to all.

Posted on April 17, 2008. Filed under: J Kleske, M Pence, Netbeans, Ruby on Rails, S Swift, Twitter, entertainment, music, netlabels, programming languages, useful links | Tags: Aerotone, all-nighter, Düsseldorf, Medgadget.com, Netzpolitik.org, pl0g.de, videos |

I’m stranded in Duesseldorf at work, so instead of being home, in my bed and asleep, I’m sitting next to our frontend guru who’s still awake enough to get real work done. My next possible train goes at 4:31am, but taking it would be rather pointless — to get me awake in the morning, my [...]

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: content management system, convincing the user, overloading perception, pitfalls in usability, visual perception |

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 [...]

some probably useful links to get into Ruby on Rails

Posted on March 2, 2008. Filed under: Debian Etch, PHP, RoR user groups, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, getting help, installation, introductions, tutorials, up and running, useful links, work |

As I am going to use this blog here as a sync’ed resource for stuff I might need at work and at home, I’m going to dump some Ruby/Rails links in here, taken from my local Wiki:
   Update: I foster a separate page of useful links for getting into RoR.

a Slideshare presentation on [...]