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Slides from My OSLO “PDC Fireworks” Presentation

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The lightning talks went well, everyone was reasonably happy to sit through the presentations and I’m hoping people took away some nuggets of information that will help them divulge deeper.
My talk spawned a small drinking game (although with mimed drinks) from James. A drink for every time I said “model”. For an 8-10 minute talk [...]

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Getting Oslo’s Intellipad to show MGrammar Mode

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

[EDIT: You can just launch Intellipad with Samples Enabled, from the Start Menu. For some reason my first port of call was to run Intellipad from the command line]
Ok I’m beginning to dive into Oslo, so I can at least Appear knowledgeable for the PDC Fireworks talk next week, but there was one thing that [...]

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Like footprints on the moon: beware your software legacy

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This post has been brewing for some time:
A couple of weeks ago I was very amused to get a tweet from Daniel Cazzulino (the guy behind Moq)

The reason I found the text funny was the idea that Daniel found it strange to have legacy parts of an application within a year of starting the application. [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘usability’

To Snapper or not to Snapper

Friday, July 25th, 2008

So for those who aren’t in Wellington, the local busses are starting to completely roll out the new Snapper card payment system. If you’re from the UK think Oyster.
Let me first off say that I REALLY want to like this system, I loved travelling round London on the Oyster, and putting my monthly passes on [...]