Steve Souders:
This was my review of what happened in 2008 with regard to web performance, and my predictions and hopes for what we’ll see in 2009.
Long URL Please | Lengthening short urls so that you don’t have to
Masentavaa, että tällainenkin tarvittiin:
Short URLs are common in many web sites and applications. Use this web service to reduce uncertainty for your users.
ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate
We'll be releasing the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate in January. Our plan is to have that build be ASP.NET MVC V1 API and feature-complete and have zero known bugs. — — We'll then ship the official V1 release shortly after that (so not far off now).
The Uncanny Valley of user interface design
Bill Higgins:
So I’d recommend that if you’re considering or actively building Ajax/RIA applications, you should consider the Uncanny Valley of user interface design and recognize that when you build a “desktop in the web browser”-style application, you’re violating users’ unwritten expectations of how a web application should look and behave.
Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface
Jeff Atwood:
In my experience, shoehorning desktop conventions into web applications rarely ends well. I was never able to articulate exactly why, but the uncanny valley theory goes a long way towards explaining it.