Archive for the 'usability' Category
Web-Based PDE Builds
As a release engineer, one of my daily challenges is usability - making painful processes easier to use. Of course invariably the simpler a process is to the user, the more complex it is to set up.
Here’s a quick rundown of the 6 pieces involved in setting up a build:
website (php)
.htaccess
shell script (bash)
lockfile (txt)
lockfile watcher [...]
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And Now For Something Completely Different…
Much like Ian’s post the other day, I’ve always wanted to blog that line. Anyway, it’s been brought to my attention that of late I’ve been apparently posting less-than-positive things about Eclipse, so to balance that out, here’s my top three cool UI features in Eclipse 3.3, in order from oldest to newest:
#3: Use PDE [...]
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That Ol’ PDE Black Magic
… or more reasons why features still suck.
In the past 24hrs, I’ve encountered two feature-related PDE issues, which I think warrant discussion as they are, to the uninitiated, seemingly black magic. The first of these was discovered and fixed last night while watching The Dresden Files in ten-minute chunks while waiting for builds to complete, [...]
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EMF: It’s A Beautiful Thing
At the moment, there are at least 11 different ways to get EMF, topped just the way you like it:
9 zips: 3 SDKs (EMF-SDO-XSD, EMF-SDO, XSD SDK), 3 runtimes (EMF-SDO, XSD & Standalone), examples, tests, and models [1]
2 different Update Manager methods (install EMF-SDO-XSD SDK or install individual features) [2]
Is this sufficient? Some say it’s [...]
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LATER & WONTFIX Bugs (The Saga Continues)
This was orginally going to be a post in bug 178923, but seeing as Ed and Aaron have decided to duke it out themselves, I’ll just move it here.
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Reading through the later comments on bug 178923, I would like to clarify a few
things, just in terms of the my experience working on and with the [...]
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