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Sign Up Forms Must Die by Luke W

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This is a great presentation on usability and more importantly on getting users engaged and active on your site. The standard full page sign up form is a big turn off for users, not to mention the fact that your first impression with them is wasted on a bureaucratic/draconian form. Is this really how we want to start our relationship with them? Is this even necessary?

I know I have been trying to persuade my clients to ditch or at least minimize this obstacle for their users.

Sign Up Forms Must Die starts at around 24:15. Check it out .. great talk!

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Posted October 13, 2010
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Public Static Void

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Great watch from Rob Pike of Google on the nature and evolution of today's "industrialized" languages, in particular C++ and Java. He calls it "institutionalized bureaucracy". Where the more verbose the code, and more you justify your syntax to the compiler, the better the code is and the more robust.

Once again, I highly recommend checking out this video. "If you have to foo that often, then somebody is not fooing right"

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Posted July 23, 2010
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"I have A Confession to make. I use Java."

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So good! Although I am not a java developer or .net, I still find this video hilarious.

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Posted June 26, 2010
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