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[greg nice]

Originally Posted by gaming_mouse

What's hard isn't writing a query to figure out what questions they havn't answered. What's hard is all the UX issues it raises:

Do you silently omit the question?
Do you display it but greyed out with the existing answer which cannot be changed?
Do you just show a message saying Question 6 has been skipped because you already answered it? Or do you just renumber the questions? Etc, etc.

You really have to think hard about your business goals and the user experience to answer questions like this. They might seem trivial and easy, but ime figuring stuff like this out is by far the hardest and most time consuming part of application development.

great post. this articulates well what i'm going through right now acutally. if you have any links on user experience ideas/guidelines that would be cool too. i had never heard of the term or the acronym until now

[Gullanian]

Originally Posted by gaming_mouse

Gull,

The whole cart feels really slick -- nice work. i especially love the subtle graphic effects when things change. One tiny tiny nit -- remove the "update" button and just make the cart update as you type a new quantity, or maybe when you leave the form field?

Thanks! I think doing it in real time could be a little disconcerting for the user - I thought a lot about that and in the end decided to copy how Amazon do it

[gaming_mouse]

Originally Posted by greg nice

great post. this articulates well what i'm going through right now acutally. if you have any links on user experience ideas/guidelines that would be cool too. i had never heard of the term or the acronym until now

i'm not an expert at it, but doing BDD has been the most helpful thing so far. and by that i mean not only stuff like cucumber, but more importantly the process of first thinking through and writing down what a specific kind of user wants to do in a specific scenario.

so if you were thinking about twoplustwo, two important user types to think about would be regular forum users and new users. what are the tasks a regular user comes to the site to complete? one of them is to see new activity on threads he's participated in. so how do you present info to him to make those tasks easiest? 2p2 has the subscribed threads feature, eg, for the first task. but it's sort of hidden away. if you were redesigning it, you might want to make it more prominent, or even make it the homescreen, etc. now think about a new user. his goals are completely different. you may have to balance conflicting goals for different user types.

the specific answers aren't my point here though -- it's the process of starting with a user and what he wants to do in a specific case. Writing that down with no concept of how you are going to solve it, no thought of UI whatsoever. That's where you need to start.

sort of on this topic, i recently read this article and found it helpful.

[greg nice]

very interesting, thanks

[Ryanb9]

In C# when I make an instance of A that inside it has an instance of B which inside that has an instance of C... when I want an event raised by A to be handled by C without A knowing about C i do a.EventName += b.HandleEventName and inside B i do HandleEventName { get{return c.HandleEventName;} }.
First of all is this standard / okay? And my main question is what is the easiest way to do the reverse of this (i.e. event raised by C that gets handled by A without C knowing about) A. I can only think of two ways, one is have B receive an event from C and immediately raise its own event i.e.

(B) public void HandleCEvent(object s, args e)
{
     EventHandler<args> handler = copyEvent;
     if(handler != null) handler(s,e);
}

And just have A subscribe to B's copyEvent. The other one is something like

(A) b.foo(HandleEventMethod);
(b) public void foo(EventHandler<args> method)
{
    c.event += method;
}

Is there any other ways this can be done? Is one of the two above better than the other?

[Bank]

Originally Posted by Colombo

Could anyone give me any pointers here? I need to keep track of a user's responses, while also ensuring that each response is uniqued on (userID, questionID).

SurveyQuestion needs SurveyIndex field.

Survey doesn't need numQuestions field. (it is a derived value)

Where is your QuestionAnswer table?

[alex23]

Hey guys, it seems like rails, python, and php are standard for REST-based APIs. I want to make different iphone apps that use them to access databases (stuff like recipe APIs, wine APIs, etc). Which of rails/python/php would I do best to spend some time learning? Also, how much of the language would I usually need to know to do this? Thanks.

[Colombo]

Just want to say thanks to all those who offered advice with my survey question!

[clowntable]

How feasible is xulrunner, chromium whathaveu for a user interface? I feel like redoing a bit of a gameserver and am wondering what user interface would be best.

I'd say webbased LDO but I want multitabling (just pretend I develop a poker server/client). Has anyone experience with say running 4 xulrunner based user interfaces to connect to some server?

The alternative would be Qt I guess (don't care about the recent turbulences it's good enough and will be good enough imo)

[WiltOnTilt]

i'm looking for a good/easy gui for viewing multiple server logs from multiple machines. Obviously just using the command line is ok but it would be nice to be able to have some software with tabs that can hold a tail -f style log stream.

anything out there like this for mac? i tried to google but didn't have much luck (although could be me being dumb)

Thanks

[_dave_]

does a mac terminal not have tabs? or do you mean something else?

[MrWooster]

I have used multitail before... its highly configurable and allows you to tail logs from any number of different sources simultaneously. Configuration can be a bit of a pain at the start.

http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/

[Ryanb9]

I finally did it xD

[WiltOnTilt]

Originally Posted by MrWooster

I have used multitail before... its highly configurable and allows you to tail logs from any number of different sources simultaneously. Configuration can be a bit of a pain at the start.

http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/

thanks ill chk it out

[WiltOnTilt]

Originally Posted by _dave_

does a mac terminal not have tabs? or do you mean something else?

i was just looking for something a bit more user friendly, like preconfigured login/pass/path to log, easily export/save/search/watch in real time. command line is ok just thought there might be something better