Jose Diaz-Gonzalez

Poorly Designed Online Portals

I just want to rant for a bit. It is a pet peeve of mine when I am a member of a organization (like a school or society etc.) that has a badly designed portal.[Read More]

Posted at 03:53AM Dec 18, 2008 by Jose Diaz-Gonzalez in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Phone Synchronization on a Mac

I occasionally tether to my 3g enabled phone. No, it is not a smartphone, not by any means (it runs on S40, but by today's standards it is very dumb). When I do so, I get text messages or calls from people that are usually of some importance, and it is nice to know who is calling. 

Posted at 07:40AM Dec 14, 2008 by Jose Diaz-Gonzalez in Personal  |  Comments[0]

The Optimal Open Source Project Homepage

I've take many detours with my current project, and one of them has led me to the following thought: Why are so many Open Source home pages designed so badly?

In the process of downloading a CMS, I realized that I no longer could find the actual download for the software.

Take a look at the joomla page. It took me a solid 3 minutes to find the black "DOWNLOAD JOOMLA" button on the right-hand side. I've worked with Joomla for a few years now, since the Mambo fork, and I have to say that this really caught me by surprise. It isn't even apparent what the latest release might be (1.5.8 if you were wondering). Not very user-friendly.

Posted at 12:06AM Dec 12, 2008 by Jose Diaz-Gonzalez in Sun  |  Comments[0]