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Was Dave a Genius?
[11 Jul 2010 | 5 Comments]

Every company you work for always seems to have a horror story about something that happened before your arrival. Things like current production old legacy systems that used mode="SQLServer"  for session state and then stored a ton of database reads in session to cache them. The on... [More]

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Dashboards In Practise
[6 Feb 2009 | 0 Comments]

In my last post I spoke about the idea of web dashboards as customisable user interfaces. I gave a short example for the sake of explaining how it works – but it wasn’t very interesting. This post is a follow-up post, showing a more concrete example of where a dashboard interface works well. Over ... [More]

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Web Dashboards
[27 Jan 2009 | 0 Comments]

Often you see web sites that allow a certain amount of customisation of the user interface. This usually varies. Maybe they allow you to change the ‘theme’ – loading a new style sheet that replaces some images and colours. Some web sites, such as the BBC go that extra mile and provide the ‘dashboard... [More]