I’ll be attending the Future of Web Applications next week. The conference seems to have quite a few interesting talks, I’m particularly looking forward to hear Paul Graham talk since I enjoy his writings immensely.
Month: September 2007
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UI design
Saw this very interesting UI-video today called Away with Applications: The Death of the Desktop by Aza Raskin (part of the google tech talks). It shows an interesting application enso, very similar to quicksilver. The interesting part is of course the abstract (what it is a solution to) and the conclusion (and why). Especially things like application silos and how enso marries the CLI with the UI gives some food for thought.
Stumpled upon this story the other day. Finally a tool where you can actually decide which things get prioritized instead of the kernel relying on heuristiscs. I did a test with alsaplayer playing back using through jackd (very sensitive to not getting enough time slices). To stress the system I did a emerge sync together with a fetchmail process sucking down the days mail. I don’t really care if it takes 5 seconds longer to fetch my mail or if it takes 2 minutes long to emerge sync as long as I can be sure that my music doesn’t skip. And guess what? With DeskOpt you can 🙂