Archive for November, 2006

My first web app

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

I’ve heard people talk about how hard it is to make a page look and work the same way in both Firefox and IE, but I’ve never had the opportunity to hack it out myself. Boy has it been an unpleasant experience. I’ve put up a really simple form and tested it only with my [...]

Open University paper submission form

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I am studying Comp.Sci at the Israeli Open University. Basically what it means is that I don’t have to go to lectures and do all my studying on my free time - weekends mostly.
When you submit a paper to the OpenU via email, you need to attach a special scanned form to it, or the [...]

Designing Interfaces

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I wrote in a previous post about the problems we faced while designing a user friendly interface. I always thought of this as an abstract art approachable only to the overpaid designers of Apple, Google, Microsoft and the like. And so I was quite surprised to find a Design Patterns style book on user interface [...]

Virtual dojo

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Every once in a while the start-up muse vistis me and leaves me bevildered with another facinating idea. The first thing I do then is check the web whether anybody has thought of it already.
This time I thought I could open a virtual dojo in Second Life and train people in the virtual matial arts [...]

Finally, my own webspace

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

I’ve hosted my blog on Google’s blogger and on Tuzig’s servers, the company I work for. Now it is time to go on own way, write my own thoughts in the privacy of my own domain and web hosting.
It’s a pain to configure and maintain, but I hope it will be worth it.