About
Nerddogs is the company and web site of developer, innovator, and all around nice guy Matt Bumgardner.
Tune in as Matt blathers about the design, implementation, and human element of beautiful software.
Monthly Archives
Posts by Category
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Shaker PhilosophyMarch 31st / No Comments »
I found this little gem whilst surfing the interweb this morning: If it is not useful or necessary, free yourself from imagining that you need to ... Continue
Is there anything worse than bad Perl?March 10th / No Comments »
Photo courtesy of: Graham Reznick I just need to vent. Nothing against all of the Perl mongers out there, but there is nothing worse in my ... Continue
Professionalism and the Previous ProjectFebruary 28th / No Comments »
Those of us in the consulting profession have no doubt been hired by client to either take over or clean up a previous effort. ... Continue
Best Human-Machine Interface EverFebruary 8th / No Comments »
This is classic 1970's. Notice the sticker that states this machine is "not Y2K complaint". Here is a snap of the entire machine. Sorry the pictures are ... Continue
Tales of Bad User Experiences: Chapter 2February 4th / No Comments »
AJAX is pretty much ubiquitous in today's web. By allowing web developers to load things in the background and display items on an existing page ... Continue
Installing R and RSRuby on Leopard 10.5January 22nd / No Comments »
Recently, I have been doing a lot of scientific programming for a client. This usually means I need to write smaller programs that: sift ... Continue
Tales of Bad User Experiences: Chapter 1January 18th / No Comments »
I think the bane of an end-user's existence is the web form. They never validate in a predicable way (let alone in real time), the ... Continue
User Interface Affordances and the iPhone 1.1.3 UpdateJanuary 16th / No Comments »
Donald Norman defined the term affordance in his book "The Design of Everyday Things." A few years later, Alan Cooper framed up that notion within ... Continue
5 ways to become a software craftsmanJanuary 11th / 1 Comment »
When you think of a craftsman, what image pops into your head? Typically that question elicits responses such as a carpenter, a plumber, a brew ... Continue
Hello there.January 5th / No Comments »
Well I guess this is where I will make my home on the web. I've tried this blog thing a couple of times in ... Continue
