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The Illusion of Completeness - embrace the "sketchy" prototype
As Joel Spolsky explains in his post The Iceberg Secret, Revealed, the user interface usually represents less than 10% of the actual functionality of the entire application.
You know how an iceberg is 90% underwater? Well, most software is like that too — there's a pretty user interface that takes about 10% of the work, and [...]
Star Wars: Force Unleashed - this isn't your daddy's Atari
Since developing Majority Desk, I have really been appreciative, intrigued, and amazed by the potential of using simulated physics as the engine for allowing objects to interact in games and other software. For Majority Desk, we used the open source Open Dynamics Engine, and it gave us all we needed and more to simulate [...]
Science Debate 2008
My top issue in the upcoming U.S. presidential election is our focus on science and technology. Currently, we have an increasing attitude of entitlement, complacency, and whininess about our jobs being outsourced and our dollar value declining. Instead, we need to increase motivation and resources to be technology innovators and world leaders in [...]
Taking Wiimote Innovations to the Next Level
Recently, I came across some videos of a very smart dude name Johnny Chung Lee that has been doing some interesting innovations with one of my favorite toys, the Wiimote. Johnny Lee is a Ph. D. student at Carnegie Mellon, and his innovations are both simple and brilliant. He is doing work similar to Majority [...]
Enterprise Tyranny Of The Or
There is an interesting battle going on between the Enterprise Irregulars vs. Robert Scoble and Nick Carr about the lack of sexiness in enterprise software. In Scoble's original post, he asks if anyone knows how to make business software sexy. Fellow Irregular, Michael Krigsman, responded in his blog:
Enterprise software is all about helping [...]
About ewH
This blog covers all topics including personal experiences, thoughts, rants, etc. with a focus on technology and life in the blissful corporate world as an applications developer/solution architect aka Enterprise Geek.
