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IUE2009: Use Cases and Scenario-Based Design
Today at IUE2009, I attended an excellent workshop led by Jan Moorman on scenario-based design and use cases. My experience with use cases has been limited to what I’ve read from websites like AListApart.com, some select pages returned from Google searches, and snippets from books like Martin Fowler’s UML book and “Designing the Obvious” by…
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Next week: IUE2009
I’ll be at the Internet User Experience 2009 conference in Ann Arbor, MI this week with a crew of coworkers. In addition to the conference itself on Wednesday and Thursday, I’ll attend 2 full-day tutorials: Use Cases in an Agile World Field Research for User Experience Design I’m looking forward to the events, and intend…
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Fatten me up?
I was captured. Eva had my right arm and Lila had my left. They were walking me back to my house in St Charles, and they were pretending to be evil witches. “Let’s put him in the dungeon so we can eat him!” schemed Eva. “You’re going to fatten me up before you eat me?”…
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Lila’s whiteboard art: EVA
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DSS.MIL is not to be trusted
It’s funny that the Defense Security Service (Provides security services to the Department of Defense and defense contractors. Mostly counter-espionage and physical security tasks.) homepage triggers an SSL certificate error. Is that some sort of first lesson: TRUST NO ONE! Heh.
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“God is so good” rendition by Adam
My friend Adam posted this to Youtube. Nice job Adam.
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First pistol practice of the season!
I made it to the range today! The afternoon was sunny and seemed like it was in the high 30s. My fingers were stiff on the cold pistol, but the lighting was beautiful and the wind was light. This was the first time I’ve shot at the Saginaw Field & Stream club. It has an…
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The Google AdSense conundrum
I have a little side project over at rangelistings.com. The site contains a page for each state with a map of where shooting ranges in that state are. This is the first time I’ve posted advertisements on a site I’ve created, and I’ve run into a compelling question on how to make the ads more…
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Is it Spring yet? I got stuck on a muddy road.
The weather today was sunny, blue sky and mid-forties. The Winter is long, and on days like today, it is easy to think the season has changed. No dice. I’m sick. Some sinus, upper-bronchial thing. I left work a little early; I was in no shape to start writing an XML schema. At home I…
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Tim Horton’s WIFI page…fitting
I just connected to the wifi connection at a Tim Horton’s restaurant near Saginaw, MI. I opened a Web browser, and was sent to google.ca…Google for Canadians. Vivé la Tim Hortons! Small detail, but funny.