users on SWiK

User Group Access levels explained in simple terms - Joomla! Documentation

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:59:07 -0700

Denver RIA Developers Group - Powered by CollectiveX

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:04:21 -0700

insites " Blog Archive " WordPress, bbPress & MediaWiki

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:58:44 -0700

comScore M: Metrics: 80 Percent of Iphone Users in France, Germany and the U.K

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:03:08 -0700

80 percent of iPhone Users in France, Germany and the UK Browse the Mobile Web

Google Chrome - People are reading about it, but who\'s using it?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:57:19 -0700

Everybody's talking about the launch of the Google Chrome browser, but nobody appears to be using it - yet.

JDF Users Group Research and Consulting

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:41 -0700

Hawaii Eclipse User's Group - Eclipsepedia

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:09:32 -0700

A regional user group for Eclipse is coming together! I met Greg Hasting at the Bytemarks geek lunch. Their first meeting is Sept. 18 at the IBM Building.

MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition ? until end of September!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:44 -0700

We timed our Use Case Competition to coincide with summer holidays, and are now prolonging the duration of the Use Case Competition with one month, until 30 September 2008.

To recap, here’s the original posting (with an updated deadline):

With 5.1 having officially been in Release Candidate status since September 2007 and soon approaching GA status, the MySQL Community Team launches a competition for the users of new features of MySQL 5.1:

Submit your MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report to community(at)mysql.com by 30 September 2008 and have a chance of winning one of our prizes:

1st-3rd prize: A MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 Pass, including a dinner with MySQL co-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius

4th-10th prize: MySQL Community Contributor T-shirts

11th-20th prize: A Sakila mascot (MySQL’s pet dolphin)

You may phrase your MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report freely, but the more colour you give it, the better your chances of winning.

By submitting the report, you also volunteer for appearing in our upcoming Use Case articles. We will consider any data you submit in your Use Case Report as public and quotable in our reports. However, you may ask us to anonymise certain aspects of your use case, should you otherwise not be able to participate in our competition.

This is the desired format of your submissions:

From: <you> To: Community(at)mysql.com Cc: <any of your colleagues you wish to inform> Subject: MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report: <Feature> / <App Name>

MySQL Community Team,
At <company/organisation> we've used <new 5.1 feature> since <date>.

We're now on MySQL 5.1.<n> and we started development using <new 5.1 feature> with MySQL.5.1.<m>.
Purpose of our appication:

Reason we need <new 5.1 feature>:

Development environment, OS, language:

Deployment environment, OS, hardware:

Relevant metrics on size/type of application:

Our comment on how <new 5.1 feature> meets our needs: - comments on usability of feature - comments on clarity of documentation - comments on performance - comments on bugs encountered [1]

Our greetings to the MySQL Engineering Team:

Name and email of submitter / developer:

Name of organisation:

Geographic location (city, country):

MySQL Enterprise customer: (YES/NO)

[1] If you’ve found bugs, then please follow our bug reporting instructions and share bug numbers from bugs.mysql.com in your use case report.

We’re looking for Use Cases on all new MySQL 5.1 features, but especially on

Partitioning: Doc * Forum * Articles JonS & PeterG, RobinS, RS2, Giuseppe

Row-Based Replication: Doc * Forum

Event Scheduler: Doc * Forum

Logs on demand / Table logging: Doc * Forum * Article Giuseppe

Plugin API: Doc

XML functions: Doc * Article: Bar & PeterG

but also other improvements: Doc *Article Jay

Links:

MySQL 5.1 Article Recap: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-5.1-recap.html

6 Areas To Know More: Custom Domain User Management in Oracle BPEL PM 10.1.3.3

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:29 -0700

Postfix - Hosting Multiple Domains with Virtual Accounts

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:05:17 -0700

Beirdobot, irc.freenode.net :: #mythtv-users

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:04:45 -0700

TracUsers – The Trac Project – Trac

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:04:47 -0700

Zimbra upgrade from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5 | Oliver's Blog

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:07:49 -0700

Mantis Users Directory reached 500 entries

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:51:06 -0700

Mantis Users Directory ( <a href="http://www.mantisbt.org/directory.php">http://www.mantisbt.org/directory.php</a> [<a href="http://www.mantisbt.org/directory.php" target="_blank">^</a>] ) now has 500 registered companies and projects. Although it is a nice milestone for the directory, it is a very small fraction of the users out there. If your company or project is not registered yet, then go the users directory page and click Submit. While submitting you can also provide a comment or testimonial as the ones shown at <a href="http://www.mantisbt.org/testimonials.php">http://www.mantisbt.org/testimonials.php</a> [<a href="http://www.mantisbt.org/testimonials.php" target="_blank">^</a>]

Review: FogBugz, part 1

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:02:00 -0700

Today, I thought that I’d give FogBugz a quick trial. A few of our Rails consulting clients use it and I’m hearing that others are as well.

Along the way, I’m bringing one of my favorite tools so that I can share some things thoughts (visually) along the way.

Signing up for a free trial

My first impression of FogBugz was, “nice homepage design… but what is that screenshot of?”

Uploaded with Skitch!

I’m not a designer, but the interface in the screenshot isn’t jumping out to me as something that you’d expect to see in a modern web application. While I appreciate the default browser colors for links (this is really important)... I think they could have found a better way to distinguish which bug links you’ve previously viewed. It’s very likely that you’ll most bugs many times, so having the color be different might not make sense in the same way it would when reading content on a web site. Again, I’m not a designer and I’d be curious to hear from a designer on this. Just something that I initially thought.

Uploaded with Skitch!

Okay, this sign up form seems really easy to start with. I’m used to free trials being really simple to get going. So, I enter in my sub-domain selection and provide my email address on the following page so that they can confirm that I’m legit.

(several minutes later…)

Okay, this process required me to jump from my browser to my email to my browser back to my email and then back again to my browser. It’s really frustrating for an application to force me to go back and forth between my browser and email client. I think the initial email is something I can cope with, but I found it a bit silly to have to wait for another email to receive a link to login to my new account, especially considering I already knew the URL as that was the first thing that I provided. The application could have provided the link (or redirected me) to the following form, which I had a few things to comment on.

Uploaded with Skitch!

At first glance, this might not seem like much… but I’m becoming more and more disappointed by the choice of language that we’re using in applications. First of all, this is the first time that I’ve seen this page. I’m not changing my password… what you’re really asking me to do is, “Create (or set) a password.” There are other verbs that you could use here, but change really isn’t appropriate. Also, choose doesn’t work here either.


  chose; choos·ing.
  –verb (used with object)
  1.    to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference:

What am I choosing from? Again, you’re asking me to create a new password.. not change one and definitely not choose one, unless you’re implying that I should choose one from a collection of ones that I already use.

One might argue that we can make an assumption about what they mean, but it’s simple problems like this that can seriously confuse people that use the software we design and develop. As people interact with minor problems like this, their perception of the software as being helpful and friendly… can quickly deteriorate.

Okay, so that was my first several minutes of getting into my new FogBugz account.

Coming soon… Robby will share his thoughts on managing bugs with FogBugz.

Tip: Save your users 15+ seconds of their day

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:01:58 -0700

Since understanding the context is so important when designing interfaces, I wanted to point out one of those things that caused me to shake my head at.

When logging into our Basecamp account this afternoon (via openid)... I was presented the following helpful notice.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

What’s amusing in this scenario… is that I’m sure that Basecamp knows that I’m logged in via openid and it is, in fact, displaying the OpenBar across the top of the page. Yet, it’s making this helpful recommendation that I’m obviously already aware of.

What harm is there? Well, in this scenario, I caught it and thought, “wow, this isn’t helpful or informative.” Over time, it’s these short-lived experiences that affect our overall perceptions of the product.

When we’re designing and developing applications, we must be very consistent with how we communicate with our audience. We don’t need to provide them information that isn’t relevant to them.

I’m not picking on Basecamp here, I’m sure that they have great intentions with this, but as a developer, I know that it doesn’t take a whole lot of extra work to avoid small problems like this, which could lead your people to feel like you’re not being respectful of their time.

Saving customers 15-30 seconds is something that we can quantify.

100 customers = 25-50 minutes
1,000 customers = ~4-8 hours
10,000 customers = 40-80 hours
etc…

Just a little reminder that it’s easy for us to overlook things like that can make a difference.

USB iBuddy - MSN Messenger Alert Lights!

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:13:55 -0700

Download latest version of Flash to view video!.

Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode

Here’s USB iBuddy, an MSN Messenger alert light basically. It even has wings, just like RedBull.

You can buy it here:

iBuddy at Brando.com.uk for $20

iBuddy at Firebox.com for $24.95

iBuddy at BuyiBuddy.com for $24.95

iBuddy at Prezzybox.com for £14.95

i-Buddy is specially designed for Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) users. It is a physical representation of your buddy. You can program it to recognize a particular buddy account, and it will response to all messages and status events sent from your buddy.

It is a 3-inches tall figurine connected to the computer using a USB cable. Specially designed in tiny size, so that it does not consume much space while you are at work. It is perfect to put on top of your monitor too.

via gizmodo

Brought to you by: Zedomax.com

USB iBuddy - MSN Messenger Alert Lights!

Eco-Friendly Harddrive Lowers Carbon Footprint!

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:09:12 -0700

Here’s a cool eco-friendly harddrive called “[re]drive” by Fabrik made with materials that lessens the carbon footprint.

The [re]drive has 500GB of storage and promises 25% faster data transfer with its Turbo USB 2.0 connectivity compared to standard USB 2.0. Both Mac and Windows users can use the [re]drive and it ships with automate backup software for archiving important data. The SimpleTech [re]drive is available today for $159.99.

via gadgetoholic - ohgizmo

Brought to you by: Zedomax.com

Eco-Friendly Harddrive Lowers Carbon Footprint!

A Guide On RSS Tool

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:53:51 -0700

RSS is an abbreviation that has evolved into the following, depending on their versions: · RDF Site Summary (also known as RSS 0.9; the first version of RSS) · Rich Site Summary (also known as RSS 0.91; a prototype) · Really Simple...

Joomla Users Table,How to create joomla user by using other component/table,How many tables are related with users? " My Weblog

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:46:50 -0700

Manual:Preventing access - MediaWiki

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:55:38 -0700

3306.jpg (JPEG Image, 900x900 pixels)

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:46:06 -0700

Tutorial: ISP-style Email Service with Debian-Sarge and Postfix 2.1

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:43:32 -0700

Осушители воздуха

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:49:37 -0700

[from swwsman] Sobre segmentos 2.0

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:51:46 -0700

Firefox 3: Power User's Guide to Firefox 3

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:49:23 -0700

List of Users and Pages? - MediaWiki Forums

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:52:26 -0700

Is there any way to see a list of all users? Also, is there any way to see a list of all pages in the whole wiki?

Number of iPhones to be Sold in 2008 will shatter 10 million | Applelot

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:58:09 -0700

Postfix Admin - Web based administration interface

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:56:25 -0700

pacopablo/blog/set-assign-to-drop-down - Casa de Pacopablo - Trac

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:58:15 -0700

users on SWiK

User Group Access levels explained in simple terms - Joomla! Documentation

Denver RIA Developers Group - Powered by CollectiveX

insites " Blog Archive " WordPress, bbPress & MediaWiki

comScore M: Metrics: 80 Percent of Iphone Users in France, Germany and the U.K

Google Chrome - People are reading about it, but who\'s using it?

JDF Users Group Research and Consulting

Hawaii Eclipse User's Group - Eclipsepedia

MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition ? until end of September!

6 Areas To Know More: Custom Domain User Management in Oracle BPEL PM 10.1.3.3

Postfix - Hosting Multiple Domains with Virtual Accounts

Beirdobot, irc.freenode.net :: #mythtv-users

TracUsers – The Trac Project – Trac

Zimbra upgrade from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5 | Oliver's Blog

Mantis Users Directory reached 500 entries

Review: FogBugz, part 1

Signing up for a free trial

Tip: Save your users 15+ seconds of their day

USB iBuddy - MSN Messenger Alert Lights!

Related posts

Eco-Friendly Harddrive Lowers Carbon Footprint!

Related posts

A Guide On RSS Tool

Joomla Users Table,How to create joomla user by using other component/table,How many tables are related with users? " My Weblog

Manual:Preventing access - MediaWiki

3306.jpg (JPEG Image, 900x900 pixels)

Tutorial: ISP-style Email Service with Debian-Sarge and Postfix 2.1

Осушители воздуха

[from swwsman] Sobre segmentos 2.0

Firefox 3: Power User's Guide to Firefox 3

List of Users and Pages? - MediaWiki Forums

Number of iPhones to be Sold in 2008 will shatter 10 million | Applelot

Postfix Admin - Web based administration interface

pacopablo/blog/set-assign-to-drop-down - Casa de Pacopablo - Trac