Displaying posts tagged: usability

Plus is valid in e-mail addresses, dammit!

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I hate sites that have absolutely broken validation of fields. Whether they require you to enter your credit card number without spaces (because stripping spaces is SO HARD!), expect dates in the brokenest format ever (MM/DD/YYYY, cue the angry Amurricans) without telling you, or disallow special characters in the password(!)... but my favorite would have to ...

Not so ultimate WordPress 2.2 tags

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Update: I forgot to mention that you must hack a core file and adapt your theme, too. See the end of the article. Upgrading to WordPress 2.2 bleeding edge is an adventure, always. Not necessarily because they introduce new bugs--it's the new features that are sometimes worrying. When one svn up changed all the feeds from...

Habari development

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As you may or may not know, I'm now part of the core development committee of Habari. Habari is a next generation blogging platform written in object-oriented PHP using the model view controller design pattern. There, enough buzzwords? Not having to support a huge installed codebase with a lot of legacy, we have a chance to ...