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DADI still stands up

I watched a Webinar on “The Fundamentals of Exceptional Interface Design” this morning for Filemaker experts and found the process extremely similar to the DADI process I use for Filemaker and web projects: Define, Architect, Design, and Implement.
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It all stems from the need to Define what is needed before diving into the all-too-fun process of programming. It also comes from the need for the client to understand that they might need something other than what they have conceived. The client will have experience, generally, with one or several databases. The developer has produced dozens of system and offers the breadth and wealth of experience to the client.

In the first step of the process one can define needs and solutions to the task at hand and offer different approaches that depend on the needed outcome. Approaches not thought of by the client can be offered and discussed based on the developer’s repertoire or “bag of tricks.” As somebody once said, “Once begun is well done.” A good beginning or definition phase sometimes makes all the difference.

Uli on learning

Uli on learning: “

Uli Kusterer: They’ll die out eventually…:

Just like people in the original Mac days thought users would not understand keyboards, I hear people today saying that users will never understand multi-tasking, will never understand what an ‘application’ or an ‘app’ or a ‘web site’ are, and how they differ and how they are the same.

Worth remembering: people learn. Think how fast the web was adopted. Think how fast cell phones went from nothing to everywhere. Very young children know how to install apps from the App Store.

As a species, humans are incredibly resourcesful and adaptable — that’s the key to our success. And today most of our problems come from way too much success. Which is a good problem to have (better than the alternative, at least).

So anyone who’s worried that people won’t be able to learn new things should just stop worrying. For humans in general, learning new things is as natural and happy-making as sunlight.

 

(Via inessential.com.)

À la carte cable programming comes to Roku for the first time

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January 17, 2011 5:14 PM
by Tim Conneally

À la carte cable programming comes to Roku for the first time

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

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Roku’s streaming set-top box has been an unequivocal success for the “over the top” content industry, bringing streaming video on demand to millions of homes. Today, Roku announced it has gotten its first “port” of a cable channel in its channel store: WealthTV.

When I say “port,” I mean users who tune into the WealthTV channel on their Roku set top box will see the same thing that WealthTV is broadcasting to its cable partners.

Now, irrespective of their Internet provider, users will be able to add WealthTV for $2.99 per month.

“Fans that can’t get our network from their local video provider can now enjoy our…programming lineup via Roku,” said Robert Herring, Sr., founder and CEO of WealthTV. “We’ve received a large volume of consumer requests to expand our distribution to connected devices, and this deployment will let us gauge the acceptability and viability of alternative distribution methods for our traditional cable feed.”

Whether or not you are interested in the content, it is a true example of a la carte linear programming, something that has thus far been frowned upon by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, and one of the great possibilities offered by over-the-top content distribution.

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