Wil Shipley writes about the compromised perfection we must strive for in order to provide users an experience that meets their human expectations: “Classic computer programming has largely failed, because it failed to copy nature. Nothing in nature works 100% of the time, but it sure works well MOST of the time – and when it fails, well, you die and get replaced. A human being, for instance, is an absolutely amazing machine, and is provably NOT provably correct.” I particularly like the example in the second half, having to do with smartly interpreting a typed ISBN numbers for product search.

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User Friendly Heuristics

August 19th, 2009 Members Area Rip & ReformatI am trying to duplicate a members area section and would like the whole section ripped and reorganize the content on the website.The Member Sections offers Free Downloads to apps like:FireFox, Skype, Internet Explorer along with Instruction Video on how to use each application. This section must be redesign and reorganize all the info we already have but need to rip it from members section.This project shouldn’t take longer then 1 day to complete

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Hi Everyone, I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention that we’ve been developing a new ePortal connector application for Salesforce.com.  This composite application will allow ePortal users to access their SalesForce Opportunities and associated information including Opportunity Products, and contact information through the ePortal, and thus the data in SalesForce will no longer be isolated.  Additionally, it will allow multiple departments to access

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From Alertbox’s article Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful : In testing an e-commerce site last month, for example, one user complained: “This is missing a feature to go back to the previous page.” I found this apparent request for a Back button puzzling, since the button was featured prominently in the browser and the person had easily used it earlier in the test session. Also, for six years, it’s been an established guideline to avoid duplicating browser functionality in the page design. It quickly became clear, however, that the user wasn’t asking for a duplicate Back button

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Not Crumby

Adam Retter schrieb: > I am not familiar with Berkely XML DB, but I had a quick look through > the API docs for you. You are correct XMLValue is for expressing an > atomic type and not a sequence, what you need is XmlResults which can > be used for expressing a sequence of XMLValue. > > XMLResults myFiles = XMLManager.createResults(); > myFiles.add(new XMLValue("value1")); > myFiles.add(new XMLValue("value2")); > xqc.setVariableValue("files", myFiles); Adam and George, thanks for doing my homework! XmlResults values = mgr.createResults(); values.add(new XmlValue("value1")); values.add(new XmlValue("value2")); xqc.setVariableValue("files", values); Works perfectly

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Programmatically constructing sequences ("a", "b",
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I’m reposting a question that I already asked in a similar form on the Berkeley DB XML forum [1]. Let’s say I have a prepared query like this: collection(‘import’)[//File = $files] Now I would like to be $files a sequence of strings: (‘eins’,'zwei’,'drei’) Does anyone know of a way to achieve this? It might be at the XQuery level or at the Java (or whatever) level.

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In the past few months, we’ve been working with our customers and partners to help establish local user groups in a number of high MarkLogic-density areas. Towards that end, this is a quick post to announce the first Maryland Mark Logic User Group, dubbed Mark-UPS (Mark Logic User Participation Sessions) which is being coordinated by Telly Stroumbis of Boeing. Here are the details: Date/time: Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 5:30 PM

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Hi everyone, I’m hoping someone here may be able to point me in the right direction. I need to write a query that does the following for each node in the path: 1) extracts a string from a parameter (see example fragment below) 2) splits the string into distinct elements on the semi-colon character 3) keeps a running tally of unique elements for the WHOLE collection 3) keeps a running tally of how many times each unique element occured 4) returns a XML doc in which each element is paired with a number representing the times it occured

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for whole collection?

A quick search reveals that many people have tackled the problem of implementing INotifyPropertyChanged. Here are just a few: Karl on WPF using stack frames Brownie Points using lambdas Alkampfer using CodeDom Microsoft’s advice in MSDN PConverse with a basic example on Code Project Composite Extensions comparing techniques on Codeplex Mike Saunders using aspects Daniel Vaughan using a flow-through class for weak references Here’s my solution: DON’T! You do not need to implement INotifyPropertyChanged in order to do data binding.

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I think things are going on way too slow. Here are the plans for the future of ScrewTurn Wiki. Version 3.0 (30 September 2009) Finalize the release build, fixing bugs and smoothing edges Enforce compatibility with web farms (for SQL-based providers) Write user and developer documentation Package the application for non-xcopy installations (Microsoft Web Application Gallery) Definition of commercial branches (more on this later) Version 3.1 (January/February 2010) Pay some technical debt, i.e.

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Roadmap Considerations + Volunteers Recruiting