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Comment on UI Control Naming Conventions by showers

showers — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:23:22 +0000

This is such an interesting thoughtful post. Do you have anymore like this?

Comment on I Joined a Project for Fun by Brad

Brad — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:43:27 +0000

Update your blog, man!

Comment on UI Control Naming Conventions by Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:06:53 +0000

I’m so glad I found this site…Keep up the good work I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog. Thanks,

A definite great read…:)

-Bill-Bartmann

Comment on UI Control Naming Conventions by AZ

AZ — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:25:46 +0000

This made me remember what we once used for a school project that had like zillion controls and the requirements were changing every period.

We decided to prefix each control with one of the following:
ic for input control, oc for output control and dc for display control. Of course, this ends up to be Hungarian notation too. Tho, one can always suffix InputControl, OutputControl and DisplayControl.

Comment on UI Control Naming Conventions by Brad Westness

Brad Westness — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:59:15 +0000

I usually stick with the suffix notation with camel casing. The result is that a lot of my control names are pretty unwieldy, but I think it’s the most self-commenting method of naming controls.

However, it is brittle, as you said, changing from stateTextBox to stateComboBox requires searching for every instance of the control.

Maybe naming it something like stateInput or stateInputControl (or whatever) would eliminate the confusion inherent in just calling it “state” but still allow the control type to be changed without breaking everything.

Comment on Documenting SyntaxHighlighter so they don’t have to by Brad Westness

Brad Westness — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:48:55 +0000

Good post. I thought it seemed like a good idea to post things like this so that maybe some other lost soul in the future will have a useful search result when looking for documentation rather than a bunch of useless Yahoo Answers pages or whatever, so I made one too.

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Comment on Trending Topics Aren’t the Problem by Sitten Spynne

Sitten Spynne — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:12:32 +0000

That’s a good point, Clay. If trending topics were limited to the people I follow, then my odds of seeing mundane trending topics would be dramatically lower.

It’s interesting that trending topics seems to try and push all users’ trends on you when the rest of Twitter is supposedly focused on only giving you information from people you follow. It’s even more interesting considering that the old, more useful reply behavior was changed because Twitter felt like people you don’t follow aren’t what you want to see.

Comment on Trending Topics Aren’t the Problem by Clay Newton

Clay Newton — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:33:19 +0000

Your choice of followers, however, is where you get the best push of content. I haven’t seen a significant shift in the way that my followers interact with Twitter, which has meant that there is a pretty predictable pattern for me to draw value from my home feed. Beyond the home feed, you can still glean real information from search.

The trending topic thing definitely went to pot because of the influx of a much broader base of users. I would like to see trends come back, however, but as trends based on my followers. That’d be pretty cool.

Comment on Trending Topics Aren’t the Problem by Brad

Brad — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:04:59 +0000

I don’t think Twitter is necessarily dying or of decreasing use, but just that the Trending Topics feature is a completely useless subversion of what makes Twitter useful in the first place. If a friend of mine wants to illuminate me on how Michael Jackson’s passing (or whatever) affected her personally, then fine. But I’m following that person for a reason. The whole point of following people is to see the updates of people whose opinions you care about. Why then subvert that and read a bunch of static by the unfiltered masses, just because they happen to mention some topic?

I think the secret here is to learn to ignore the static, in the same way as it’s still possible to watch opera on television rather than American Idol, and it’s still possible to visit The Economist’s website rather than TMZ.com, it is possible to use Twitter to have an open conversation with like-minded others across the globe about virtually any topic while completely ignoring any unwanted chatter. Heck, I use TweetDeck and it’s designers didn’t even feel it necessary to include the ability to view trending topics anywhere in it’s UI, which is fine with me.