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Pro Developer - Optimize Your View - Introduction
Introduction
For anyone who spends a lot of time writing user interface code, optimizing the
view immediately conjures up images of windows, clever little UI gadgets, usability
issues and a long string of design meetings with excitable and over-caffeinated
programmers. The fact that these little get togethers may very well involve airborne
white board erasers traveling with great velocity and purpose is just another
testament to the passionate importance we place on how our software is presented
to our customers. Indeed, the portal through which the user peers into the depths
of our code often seems to define the software itself, at least in the eye of
the beholder. Consequently, we acknowledge that user interface issues are not
just a matter of putting on a pretty face, but in fact define the boundaries
within which our users will operate. Put a clunky view on a good piece of software
and you end up with a clunky piece of, well, software.
However, those of you who have already fired up your programmer's editor and
called in your order for a pepperoni pizza in anticipation of yet another exciting
session of coding are probably getting a little ahead of the game. We're not
here to talk about the bits and bytes of coding. We're here to talk about something
much more important - your future as a professional software developer. So,
you won't be needing that programmer's editor for the moment. The pizza's probably
still a good idea, though. Some traditions should never be changed.
Christopher Duncan is President of Show Programming of Atlanta, Inc. and author of both the monthly syndicated column Pro Developer and the recent book for Apress, The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World. A veteran contract programmer with over a decade of experience, he has seen the extremes from the small shops you've never heard of to the huge corporate cultures such as AT&T, Equifax, and Bell South. Irreverent, unconventional, and occasionally controversial, his focus has always been less on the academic and more on simply delivering the goods, breaking any rules that happen to be inconvenient at the moment. Chris can be reached at Chris@ShowProgramming.com
Copyright (c) 2002, Christopher Duncan.
Comments
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Posted by Rollershade on 26 Apr 2005
And wheres the info??? i would like to see you expand on the methologies you use day to day and how you approach new apps in time managment.
[quote][1]Posted by [b]BeastlyPhrase[/b] on 11 Oct 2003 07:28 PM[/1]
After reading it, however, I think it would make a very, very good intro into a much longer essay (or book!) concerning this topic... -
I have to agree- I was left with my mouth watering, waiting for the beef to arrive. I have absolutely no comments regarding the message of the essay (all quite true). After reading it, however, I th... -
Posted by efs on 06 Oct 2003
Conceptually a good article to get programmers who have not already embraced the concept started thinking.
Lacking in the "meaty" details of just how this is done.
First, management has to buy i...
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