Here’s a post I wrote awhile back for our UX Community of Practice regarding ideas on how to use this new type of input device: I too bought a Leap motion controller and would like to think there is much potential for this type of computing interface. Hardware is solid. Excellent sensor and works well…
Category: Rantings
Fighting time
The train announcement was blaring from the platform and stating the destination of the manhattan bound train. I was on my way down the stairs to catch that train. As I stood on the platform trying to jump in, the doors started to close. Unlike in an elevator situation where I would have reached out…
Appreciate your way to happiness
We all have an insurmountable amount of things to be unhappy about. Without any significant effort, I am sure every single one of us can think of at least one reason to be unhappy right now. There was a study done about the correlations of how unhappiness is linked to mind wandering. They posit that…
Calm down (Pre-office stress)
Not everything in life needs to be done now. In fact a lot of things in life are just simply overhyped. Stressing to get to work in the morning is probably the best way to be unproductive all day. In this age of blackberry devices that allow us an insight of the horrors awaiting us…
Doubting the Developer Faith
I have been a software developer by trade for over a decade. I have made my name and living by writing software that is functional. It even sometimes satisfies the business requirements. I cannot count the number of times when I tell myself, “who the F is going to use this software?”. Let’s be honest…
What I should have done while I was here (What I will make sure to do, the next time I come back)
I have spent an entire year on this organization trying to deliver a software product. I now look back at those first few moments when I started typing on this keyboard and on this journey. Hindsight is always 20-20 they say, but until you realize that there are things you could have done better, you…
Prism: Decoupling at multiple levels
I’m sure we all agree that decoupling is the key to creating extensible and maintainable applications. Prism is something that will help us achieve this using a bunch of different techniques. Prism is designed to decouple UI components from each other at various levels. Below is a good diagram showing how the different parts are…
Inheritance versus Composition
Inheritance is a concept that is easily understood because the word itself has a lot of context to it. Inheritance can be best understood by this phrase “If your parents are Filipino, you would also be Filipino”. Characteristics and traits of parents are inherited downward to children who may or may not use them. Composition…
A question all engineers should ask their Managers / Directors
Hi _________, what is it exactly that you do? What’s your day to day responsibility? I’d love to automate you and make your life easier. Eventually making mine a lot easier 🙂
Automating yourself out of slavery
Automation is the greatest tool we humans can use to escape our oppressive corporate overlords. I continually strive for the day that a never tiring machine (or automata) can take over parts of my daily tasks. I understand that there is great fear attached to automation. Just imagine the amount of humans that’s going to…
Technical Insanities of a Mad Computer Scientist 