Posts Tagged ‘Design’

A camel is a horse designed by a committee

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

In the last post I refered to misaligned design in the classic quote:

a camel is a horse designed by committee.”

In an idle moment [or are you and I just procrastinating - escaping some other activity or chore?!] I’d like to briefly explore this quote because (more…)

More software design fun and stress!

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Yes, back to this nut again.  Just entering some text into an online form on lulu.com.  In Word where I prepared the text it counts the characters [with spaces] as 999.  On lulu.com it rejects the text as over 1024 characters.

I didn’t realise characters could be counted in (more…)