Category: Book News

  • Why Agent7 isn't updating

    Every time I try to post or crosspost to my Agent7 blog I get an event error (in Radio) like this: Can’t upstream because “Can’t find a sub-table named “428”.” or Can’t upstream because “Can’t find a sub-table named “5526”.” or Can’t upstream because “Can’t find a sub-table named “8105”.” I have no idea why…

  • jjg on user-centered design

    Good (public) interview getting underway in the Well’s Inkwell conference with Jesse James Garrett, author of The Elements of User Experience (New Riders, 2003), a book I’ve promised to review in this space and will get around to eventually, I promise! Garrett is a groundbreaker in the less-than-a-decade old discipline of information architecture. Much of…

  • Weee're back

    Well, that took longer than expected. I’m still getting things re-configured and re-set up at ol’ Open Publishing / ezone / x-everything industries, but most of the sites are at least now visible, and I may hope that we’ve cured the hacked-so-easily problem we had going there. In the meantime, off the air, I found…

  • Visio ate my homework

    I’ve been drawing wire frames (also called virtual blueprints) depicting schematically how a number of different page views and portlets and popup windows show look and function for a portal project, and I’ve been drawing these pictures in Visio. It’s an old version of Visio (2000) and I’m running it on a fairly old Dell…

  • I must be losing it

    After a long pleasant period of using my Mac for pretty much all my work and play tasks, I’ve been involved in an IA project recently that required me to work in the Microsphere, in Windows 2000, with Office/Win software, using Visio to make diagrams instead of OmniGraffle or Illustrator. It hasn’t been that bad,…

  • Apress picks up remaining Wrox titles

    Last month’s news that computer-professional and web-designer press Wrox (or rather its parent company, Peer Information Group) had declared bankruptcy, leaving its authors (and those of its popular Glasshaus and Friends of Ed imprints) in limbo was soon followed by word that John Wiley & Sons had purchases the Wrox name and taken over the…