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Customer service that works!
It is passé to rag on poor customer service. So I won’t. Instead I’m going to praise Interlink Electronic’s customer support. A year ago I purchased a remote pointer from Interlink. I wanted to use it on my new tablet … Continue reading
It’s official…specs are “bad”
…according to Linus Torvalds. I have to chime in on Linus’ newsgroup posting and the attendent buzz it sparked on the net this week (and on the Linux Kernel mailing list). Linus stated: So there’s two MAJOR reasons to avoid … Continue reading
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Notes from a Responsible Designer
Today is the first day I’m officially blogging. In this blog I hope to explore issues and share experiences about software design: what it is and isn’t; how successful teams approach design, and how good designers think about problems and … Continue reading