Web Design
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Tuesday Jul 8,2008 Recently I came across a small problem with setting up Oracle UCM 10gR3 on a MSSQL2005 instance. Using the net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver class. The DBAs had setup a clustered SQL environment and had given me MSSQLDB0001\ARCHIVETR. ARCHIVETR being the SQL instance which I needed to install the UCM to. For future reference all you need to do is append ‘;instance=ARCHIVETR’ to the connection string like the following:
Guide:: jdbc:jtds MS SQL2000/2005 instance - setting connection string - John’s Blog
Web Services
Formalize CSS | View demo | Download | GitHub repo Formalize CSS — Dress up your forms! Intro As designers, we are used to having quite a bit of control over how things are displayed in a browser.
Formalize CSS
I recently, as many web designers and developers will have, became aware of a fantastic resource put together by web developer, Paul Irish, and Divya Manian. Html5 Boilerplate , as they have named it, is a powerful starting off point for any website or web application. As Paul Irish describes it; “It’s essentially a good starting template of html and css and a folder structure that works., but baked into it is years of best practices from front-end development professionals.” It is absolutely packed full of fantastic snippets of code that are still very much worth using even if you don’t want to start using html5 boilerplate as your base template.
20 Snippets You should be using from Html5 Boilerplate
Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification." The written version is a heavily edited concatenation of those two talks. Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong.
Five high-level principles that guide my design. 1. Technology Serves Humans. Too often people blame themselves for the shortcomings of technology.
Five Principles to Design By
The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product
Social products are an interesting bird. For even the most experienced product designer, social products prove an elusive lover. While there are many obvious truths in social products, there are also alot of ways to design them poorly.
Hypertext Now: Hot Wired Style
If I was slow to read Jeffrey Veen's Hot Wired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites , my tardiness may in part be excused by the title. The Wired style is so well known, so idiosyncratic, and so recognizable, that a style guide seems almost redundant. Fortunately, the title is wrong.Usability Toolkit
The Usability Toolkit is a collection of forms, checklists and other useful documents for conducting usability tests and user interviews. The material may be used as is, or adapted for specific needs. Credit to the original contributors, when available (usually included in each file), is appreciated. New contributions can be sent to stcusability at sufficiently.com Most of these files are in Word format. The complete toolkit can be downloaded as a ZIP file (406kB).
