Monthly Archives: June 2010

How Farmville caused Firefox 3.6.6

So I noticed that Firefox updated itself again today, only a few days after it did last time.  Why the short time-lapse between Firefox 3.6.4 and 3.6.6? Just one bug: 574905. The Farmville Bug No joke, Firefox pushed an update on a single bug. Last release they introduced this great feature that times out Flash …

June 28, 2010 – 02:21 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Aiming for Accessibility Conference

Desire2Learn sent me to the Aiming for Accessibility Conference at the University of Guelph for one of the two days, and it was a really solid.  There’s quite a bit of expertise around accessible web technology here at the office, so it’s nice to see the cause celebrated and discussed.  The conference wasn’t huge: intimate …

June 25, 2010 – 15:55 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Chrisitian Rohrer’s Greatest Hits

Whenever I try to frame a usability problem we have with some sort of solution, I usually get overwhelmed.  Usability research is difficult to execute well even if you know what you’re doing .. but UX is a field with an over-abundance of methods and strategies.  All of these strategies have pros, cons, proponents, and …

June 16, 2010 – 11:49 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Little pictures, big ideas

I subscribe to this one photo blog on my work laptop.  Updates don’t come often, but regularly, and always with a well-written synopsis of what’s going on, and a little biography of the photographer.  The writeup is usually just enough to get my interest piqued, something else to look up online, something to share and …

June 11, 2010 – 14:11 | By dariusz | Posted in Personal Stuff | Tagged , , | Comments (0)