Simplicity Rules

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Providing a calendar to make a date selection is useful when it's sometime in the near future. In that case, it's easy to scroll to a few short months away, ordering alprazolam overnight delivery. In this situation, it's useless.

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In many cases, Order flagyl online, seeing old content in context is difficult. I can look at one blog post from a year ago. I can't get from there to the posts the author wrote immediately prior or after, order soma bars. Most blogs are set up with an expectation that the most recent content is the most important.

New stuff matters most, but old stuff also matters.

The problem of context becomes larger with microblogging. The timeline shrinks. Order soma bars, "Old" becomes hours, or even minutes. Understanding a single tweet sometimes requires the context of knowing what was said in the previous tweets.

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What is Chris talking about. Wouldn't it help if you were able to see his previous message, order ultram online legally, which mentioned he wasn't going to wear trousers all summer.

Flickr does this well. Every photo is shown within the context of when it was uploaded:

We see an after picture, order soma bars. What's it take to see the before. A single click on the thumbnail. And if we need more context, we can click browse and be taken directly into that photo's spot in the stream.

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How can you provide some context on some of your site's more buried pages.

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When I spoke at the first Ignite Portland, I said simplicity is two-fold. It's about making things easier on your users, but it's also about making things easier on yourself. When you're lucky, you get to do both at the same time.

That's the case for Ken Anderson and Janice Flint, husband and wife owners of Crystal Springs Software. Ken left his job at Adobe after 21 years to found the company, which makes iPhone apps. Its first product is an addictive little game called iZilch, cheap ultram no prescription.

I'm sure Ken and Janice have many great iPhone app ideas, but they started with a simple dice game. The rules are straight-forward, so there weren't a whole bunch of features to add before they were able to launch. They focused instead on finding the core, price of alprazolam. Although, Ken says it's not quite as easy as it looks:

"Since it is a dice game, we focused the user experience on the dice and how you interact with them. Cheap ultram no prescription,  You drag the dice with your fingers to score.  You roll them by shaking the iPhone... All this results in a very transparent user experience, a game that sweeps you up and moves you along... It is actually a lot more work to design software this way, though the scope of this project is still small."

Ken and Janice chose to focus on creating a few polished features instead of a whole bunch of fluff that doesn't flow. Even better, they were able to get their first app out in just a few months. That's counting the time it took Janice to learn the platform, cheap ultram no prescription.

All the while they were creating the simple life they wanted while raising their four teenage daughters. Their primary goal was not to cash in on the riches of the iPhone platform. Buy diazepam, The objective was a lifestyle change. Ken says he misses some parts about working for Adobe, like having hundreds of people focused on the same goal. Cheap ultram no prescription, But, they're enjoying their work, even if it is a little different:

"As an Indie developer, you have to do everything yourself, and you can't do all of the traditional things that a big company does to make a product successful because you don't have the resources.  Hopefully, we will be able to hang in there, build great products, figure out how to let people know about them and grow a sustainable business on our own terms, but it will take some time, and like iZilch, some luck."

My friends at Wired are on their side. Chris Anderson wrote a cover story this month about The New New Economy, where there are more companies, each with fewer people. An old BestPlaces joke was that we only had a handful of people because in big companies, prozac pharmacy, there are only a few people who really work.

In Crystal Springs Software we see two people choosing a simpler life and creating simple software. If this is the future, we're doing pretty good.

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Sitting at my favorite tea house the other day, I was picking Andy's brain about memcached, a back-end technology that's really beyond the type of web work I usually do.

It turns out that what I thought was complicated is really rather simple. At least, cheap lorazepam overnight delivery, it seemed that way after I read the caching story:

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I've used a number of feed readers over the last five years, starting with Bloglines and moving on to NewsGator recently giving in to Google Reader. I don't think any of them have the perfect interface. Until today, I didn't think I could describe what that would be, cheap generic zithromax.

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In a feed reader, I want to be able to glance at the latest content and tell the reader one of the following:

• Delete it
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Many readers are able to get close to this, but they have a problem with the last one. Cheap generic zithromax, Too much noise in the signal can keep a lot of us from adding more feeds. There needs to be a simple way to mark the type of content you don't want.

As an example, there is a blog I read that has great content, but also has a daily feature that I never enjoy. I would love to get the feed from that blog without that daily feature, cheap phentermine online. I'm a geek, so I could create a Yahoo. Pipe to do what I want, but I shouldn't have to, cheap generic zithromax.

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The book's focus is creating web maps and location-based applications. I'll be covering several mapping APIs in a cookbook style that will allow even non-programmers to be able to embed interactive maps into their web pages.

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Portland-based site Shizzow has a set of rules that it uses to determine whether a new feature will be added. Cheap lorazepam online without prescription, I had a chance to sit down for a Webmonkey Q&A with one of the founders, who shared the list with me.

1. Simplicity
2. Community
3. Trust

If a new feature does not match all of those criteria, it doesn't get added, ordering phentermine online cheap. This has helped a small team, all with other fulltime jobs, create a cool site with a feature-set that's "just enough."

Yes, I'm delighted that simplicity is one of their core requirements, but the balance of the list is what really makes it work, order viagra no prescription. Rather than adding something to Shizzow just because it's cool, the team needs to apply the feature to their ground rules.

A simple list like Shizzow's can help you make good choices, avoid feature creep, and create a better, Prozac without a prescription, simpler product.

[Photo by Duncan Cumming].

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