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The 37signals quoted:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
— John Gall
Reading this remind me principles of agile software development, “release early, release often” way of Open Source Software world and my own indestructible certainty in the fact that a simple working software released today is much better than a complex and over-engineered beast to-be-released-when-it-is-done.
A software is always a solution. Let’s build first a solution of client’s problem, thereafter we’ll add to application all that crap backed in typical business application, like report designers, integration points with 10 external systems and data export in 100 formats. Do the core. Release it. Then go back and do the rest 80% of application that will be used by less than 20% of customers.
…say that something of these are not true?
- Business software should be boring.
- Users of the business software can work only with grids and input forms.
- Business software are operated by mechanisms, not by humans.
- Ctrl+N, “319.11″, TAB, “160GB IPod classic”, Enter.
- Trying improve user’s experience with business application is a no way.
- “Hi! Our software doesn’t work for you? Our support service will be very happy to help you with your problems”.
Or may be I’m too new here… It’s like Zen?
I think you know already that Google Reader has left the labs. Great news, but for a week or so I cannot “read the Reader” with my browser of choice - Opera. But seems to be that Google doesn’t like it as I do.
So, the story is that now, after putting Reader out of beta stage, Google teach it speak few new languages And shows it in browser with a language that match user’s regional settings. Cool? No. For me, since my regional settings are set to country where I’m living now, this means that Google Reader speaks to me in German. But I don’t know German language! Weird… I was so sad…
And is was more sadly that Google don’t provide at least a hint for users on how to change this preference. After googling around, I’ve seen that this is not only my problem, but also many other users have the same problem.
And just in the evening I remembered about similar weird problem experienced with Google’s blogging platform - BlogSpot. When I’ve decided to open a blog, BlogSpot showed to me it’s German face. Yes, it was smart enough to see that I’m coming from German speaking country and polite enough to show his face in German. Did I mention that I don’t know German?
Yes, there is a solution to make it speak English. But it requires googling, reading few blog posts and trying. For me, and I think not only for me, it was simpler to create a blog in other place, that by default speaks the language most widely used in Internet.
Well. Sorry for ranting so long about it.
Go for it: http://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en. Google Reader in English. Still good. Still best RSS reader. And well shown in Opera.
Update: after writing this post, found this on Google Reader discussion group: Changing the language settings. This is the case when I’m glad that posted information became obsolete so fast.
I think yes. So, “Hello world!” and “welcome” on my blog.
Few words about me: I’m a software developer that wants to be a better one. I like agile approach on building software and prefer simple things that just works.
Why I’m starting my own blog? Blogging hype starts few years ago, so I’m not “trendy”. Then? Sometimes i want to say something but i don’t have audience. Sometimes i want to leave a comment in one of blogs that I’m reading, but not always comments are the best place to leave an opinion about something. Idea to start a blog flies over my head for a long time, but only when I read during short time in few places idea to “stop thinking and start doing” I decide to “do it”. And least reason: English is not my native language. I think you feel it. So, “doing it” is the best way to improve myself.
