Roman’s blog

User Interface:

• Bumptop Prototype [youtube.com]
• Jeff Han on TED Talks [youtube.com]
• Information Software and the graphical Interface [worrydream.com]
• Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word Styles [hubel.sfasu.edu]

Miscellaneous:

• Why I quit my 6-figure job: [menshealth.com]
• Many English words have Latin roots, but what are the roots of Latin? [straightdope.com]
• Flight patterns [users.design.ucla.edu]

Elliote’s notes on Architecture & Design World:

In Ivar Jacobsen’s lunch keynote he reveals that he’s pretty much given up on large, all-encompassing “processes” like RUP. He’s now advocating picking and choosing from a grab-bag of individual “practices”, which is what most shops were doing anyway.

Elliote’s notes on EBay scaling issues: Ebay has gone through three major changes in their architecture. The first version was based on Perl, the second on C++/IIS (ISAPI.dll) now it’s Java.
OSCON 2007 Presentation papers [conferences.oreillynet.com]
OSCON Presentation on AJAX Performance: Performance Javascript mantra: Be lazy, be responsive, be pragmatic, be vigilant.

Web browsers are more like mobile phones than desktops. Limited, flimsy, temperamental platform being stretched beyond its initial design goals. But everyone’s got one, so it’s still the best place to be.

http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org: An effort to open OpenOffice APIs to non UI-driven applications, like document generation or conversion (think of PDF!)