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Natural Flow
Headline: This post is a follow-on post to the Speed – The 2-second Rule post, however this post describes the problem of providing a satisfying experience for our customer with analogies rather than logic and numbers. A Satisfying Golf Game On rare occasions I enjoy the game of golf – chasing a small ball around…
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Speed – The 2 Second Rule
Headline: As developers our goal should be that all operations (except for things like batch imports) should return control to the user in less than 2 seconds. Overview This has been a rule of mine since 1999 when I first started to really get involved seriously in development (coding, not just managing) again. It was…
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Passport to Paris
I went to the Denver Art Museum with my wife on Tuesday to see the “Passport to Paris” exhibit. There were 300 year old painting that have absolutely vibrant colors (My favorite being Renoir’s “Monet painting in his garden at Argenteuil”) . My place was painted 3 years ago and I had to repaint it…
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Sometimes you get lucky…
Cool picture… Lael and I were married 30 years ago… Cool photo in the bottom left. You can also see: The Denver skyline in the reflection on the France picture in the middle. The shadows from the sun coming in the window showing what’s on the top ledge. The buffet is Lael’s great grandmother’s. As…
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Raising the Master Bathroom Sinks
This post is just to communicate with others the current state of our bathroom vanity in an effort to raise the sinks a few inches. Overview This shows the sink counter from the side and from the bottom. As you can see, it is entirely hung from the wall. There are no supports (in the…
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I Can See the Moon
The weather forecast says visibility is 25 miles… Yet I can see the moon… I never thought it was so close. (Isn’t it about 240,000 miles away?)
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Always Right?
My wife says frequently in frustration, “I hate that you’re always right!” I’m not always right. I just keep my mouth shut when I’m not sure that I’m right. I don’t talk much…
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Windows 8 Pro has Hyper-V
I had need this weekend for a virtual machine (VM). I wanted to carry it with me, but I also wanted it to be a 64-bit VM. I’m a relative novice when it comes to VMs. There will be many posts I suspect that point to many of the details for setting up VMs and…