by Dave | May 5, 2010 | Improving Apps
You may not love Sid Meier’s Civilization games but I do- have for years. So when I saw this I knew I had to mention it. Sid talks about the psychology of game design and I’ll summarize his points from this article. Recognize that the player is an...
by Dave | Apr 9, 2010 | Improving Apps
Whenever a proprietary operating system company gets enough market share, they ignore common sense and courtesy. One of the things that impelled me to launch Tuxrocket instead of quietly leaving the Mac fold and going 100% Linux was the fact that I was so locked into...
by Dave | Apr 8, 2010 | Improving Apps
Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) are available for all the major desktop environments. OK- I’m guessing on Windows (I was right). But Mac OS X, GNOME, and KDE all have guidelines meant to steer developers to develop in a way that makes apps consistent in various...
by Dave | Apr 6, 2010 | Tinker Blog
I have a fun new phone finally and ran into a snag trying to get things into an arrangement where stuff on my desktop and on my phone sync. Google’s Android essentialy skips the problem of syncing software for the desktop by syncing with their Internet based...
by Dave | Mar 22, 2010 | Tinker Blog
Attempting to change the photo in the ‘About Me’ Personal Settings control, I ran into the error above. I found a good hint at http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=62046#p134788 but with one minor change. I don’t know why they felt they...
