The iPhone Simulator

An accidental discovery I thought I’d write down so I don’t forget. On the iPhone simulator, option left-click simulates two-finger clicking: option-click and drag simulates two fingers sliding in or out for zooming in or zooming out. Likewise, option+shift left-click simulates two-finger dragging: option+shift and drag simulates two fingers dragging with equal spacing across the [...]

Filed under: Things To Remember | Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by William Woody | No Comments »

Why good user interface design is important.

Good design represents a visual “language” of sorts: when deciding upon the elements of your interface, your book, your map, you are designing the language that you are using to communicate with your reader or user. You are, in other words, giving the subtle cues which say “stop here”, “this is important”, or “this is [...]

Filed under: Commentary | Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by William Woody | No Comments »

The downside of going back to school to get a Ph.D. at my age…

… is realizing that I’m old enough to be most of my fellow classmate’s father.

Filed under: Uncategorized | Posted on October 18th, 2008 by William Woody | No Comments »

The Mortgage Crisis.

When I started this blog, my intent was to limit my discussions to computer development and technical topics. However, in another life I’m also deeply fascinated by politics and economics, and I’m also fascinated by development, especially housing development issues. And today’s mortgage crisis is a perfect storm of problems that all land in my [...]

Filed under: Commentary, Politics | Posted on October 13th, 2008 by William Woody | No Comments »

… except when it comes to programming languages.

Proof again That It’s the Artist, Not the Tools Except when it comes to programming languages: Photoshop 3 is fine if you do visual graphics, but Java is an utter failure if you write user interface code. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight….

Filed under: Commentary, Java | Posted on October 7th, 2008 by William Woody | No Comments »

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