UI and the Rest

For the past two years I have been wading through the waters of Business Intelligence or BI as it is commonly referred as. I have been developing universes (a meta layer that binds to tables and columns, this is the short definition) and reports as well as modeling data for analytical purposes. My tool set is pretty standard as my company has invested in Oracle as the database and Business Objects XI , also known as BOXI, as the BI analytics tool.

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Posted: 11th January 2008

That seems to be the question for many web designers. As the years have passed buttons have come in and out of vouge. About five years ago I remember being told by the president of the company I work for that “buttons were old and outdated and my high school son even knows that links are the way modern websites navigate, buttons are for the those behind the times.” (more…)

Posted: 1st January 2008

I guess it was finally time for me to start a blog and why not, all the other kids are doing it.  I decided to share my grammatically incorrect and opinionated views on web development and user interface design with all those folks I can sucker into reading this blog.  If this works out I can quit my job and write this blog while selling popsicle sticks on a beach, as long as they have free wireless on the beach.

If you haven’t figured it out by now I don’t take myself too seriously, but I do have a few skills and ideas that I have honed over the past 10+ years of creating websites and web applications.  So enjoy and don’t be shy to let me know what you are thinking.

Posted: 1st January 2008