Musings

uh-oh… Hugh noticed… Also, Guido van Rossum reviews The Humane Interface Meanwhile, I have been busy sketching UI ideas for use in the browser (and that means, that I have to revisit my opinon on browsers not being able to handle all UI needs. I’m piecing together some DHTML / JavaScript technology to handle some of the new ideas I’m going to try out. On another note: don’t seem to be such a bad idea after all… ...

I was googling for something totally different, when I stumbled on Die Deutsche Amalgam-Page, La Bulldozer’s Sig Page. It’s a collection of usenet .sigs from a lady that posts/posted regularly on de.alt.naturheilkunde (so the .sigs are more interesting for german speaking people I guess). She is/was very controversial, biting, sarcastic - the .sigs are a joy to read.. -- Linux is like a wigwam: no windows, no gates, apache inside. (Sig von Daniel Aubry) -- Gerade das Fehlen einer naturwissenschaftlich abgesicherten Wirktheorie ist ein herausragendes Qualitatsmerkmal unserer Lehre, denn das macht ihren Parameter "hochstes Maß an gesundem Menschenverstand" aus. (Eberhard Schutze in d.a.n.) -- > ich rede von dummheit... leider ein Wort zuviel: *von* solltest Du streichen... (Christian Howorka in d.a.n.)

Jef Raskin was the man responsible for the Macintosh. I stumbled on his website a couple of days ago and read about his explorations on Interface Design. Intrigued about THE (The Humane Environment), a new paradigm for interaction with the computer. Interestingly enough, I haven’t been able to see THE yet - the screenshot image is not showing, and THE only runs on Mac’s. But I was intrigued and ordered the book. It came, I read and I learned. Raskin talks about consciousness and non-consciousness when using interfaces, locus and focus, modality and so on. He has a deep understanding and knowledge of the subject, his theses are supported by empiric studies. And he’s able to bring across so many important points in interface design in an easy to grasp manner. ...

I’ve been chasing a bug for a couple of hours now…. “Entry not found in index” seems to be a classical @DbLookup that fails… Well, wading through the form, removing blocks of fields, testing again, and again and again and never getting rid of the error on one specific document (but on other everything’s fine). The Domino developers know the drill - it’s frustrating. The I looked at the URL - I was opening a doc by it’s UNID. I searched for that doc in the database but couldn’t find it by that UNID. So I looked at the code that creates the URL. It takes the UNID from a computed field that contains @Text(@DocumentUniqueID). ...