There are a lot of good articles to read today. First, on High Scalability we get a post about an async Tarantool queue. It is interesting reading if you are into that kind of thing. Also on the performance front, we get an article on Java Code Geeks about scalable I/O and whether to use… Read More Geek Reading March 7, 2016 #1057
To start for today, we have Job Tips For Geeks talking about stupid recruiter tricks, specifically about “where are you interviewing?”. If you have interviewed as a software developer, you have likely been asked this question. FastML follows on their original post on the fear of AI, continuing to tell us there is nothing to… Read More Geek Reading March 24, 2015
Usability is always an interesting topic. In some cases, you are dealing with how difficult something is to complete. However, some people decide to make sure that a task is fundamentally difficult to use, no matter how simple it is supposed to be. Some of the worst offenders are the online education providers. While they… Read More The Pinnacle of Bad Usability, Checkbox Edition
As the year comes to a close, everyone is posting predictions about the new year as well as reviewing their predictions from the prior year. Here at Regular Geek, I would like to look at the trends to determine what changed things and what trends we should watch in the coming year, not as predictions… Read More A Look Back And A Look Ahead At 2012
As a software engineer, you should always be looking for the location of the next defect or at least clues that something is wrong. The problem is that most developers have been trained to wait for feedback from the QA team. In many cases, the QA team is following a script or has been trained… Read More Confusion As A Usability Defect
I finally read Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. I have long believed in the title of this book as many web applications are much harder to use than they should be. When arguing about usability, I always tell people “pretend that I am an idiot” and then you can talk about real usability… Read More Applying Krug’s Usability Rules To Startups
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