Archive | Web Dev/IA

20 June 2005 ~ 2 Comments

People who I would like to meet – 1

Steve Krug I can’t over-emphasis how much his single book Don’t Make Me Think influenced me and my shift from working in the general web design field to a more specialist role in IA & Usability.

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14 June 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Printed Manuals Site

And as promised in one of the comments in the FSFJ entry, here is the PrintedManuals.jp site. I’ve worked quite hard on this one, and am reasonably happy with the results. PrintedManuals.jp is a service where we print English manuals (other languages too if available) for Japanese products like digital cameras or printers. The reason [...]

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07 June 2005 ~ 1 Comment

Unveiling of Free Stuff From Japan

And now the unveiling of Free Stuff From Japan! A month ago I posted that I was working on a new personal project and asked people to guess what it might be, from the letters FSFJ. That post got 20 comments (26 if counting my replies) and the incorrect guesses were as follows:

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10 May 2005 ~ 1 Comment

Download, don’t stream script

Sometimes you might want to put files on your server for people to download. The problem comes when the default action is to stream or execute the file.

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04 May 2005 ~ 26 Comments

FSFJ

Anyone want to hear about my new project called FSFJ? I even have a domain registered for it. It is one of those crazy ideas that might work or might fall flat on its face. I’ll give you a clue, the J of FSFJ stands for Japan. Another clue, it isn’t a “for profit” project. [...]

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