destraynor

The Complete Archives of Des Traynor

Everything that was ever published on the blog can be found here. If you find it a bit overwhelming, just pick off a few of the popular ones. The ones marked as popular were either front page on reddit/digg or linked to by a prominent website or weblog.

2007

February

• Crimes against web usability #1
• What the large font giveth, the small font taketh away

January

• You only get three seconds to make an impression
• Ship or Shut Up
• Changing the World, on $9 a day?

2006

December

• The best blog posts of 2006
• Programming Puzzle #3 Solutions
• Steve the Gambler - Caught by the IRS
• Information Anxiety 2

November

• Some tips when relocating your blog
• Solutions to the 2nd gambling puzzle
• Programming Puzzle #2 Steve Returns

October

• Programming Theorems
• Steve the Gambler = Follow up
• Steve the Gambler, A Programming Puzzle

September

• Play the field, see what IDEs are out there
• Microsofts Biggest Threat is Modesty
• Usability Reviews #2 Calendars Yahoo! versus 30Boxes
• Getting Started with Microformats

August

• Steorn, I'm all out of faith
• Programming Questions #1

July

• If we scream loud enough, they seem to listen
• Usability Reviews #1 Revisited
• 6 Simple Steps to Increase Your Productivity by 274.6%
• Usability Reviews #1
• OpenOffice Not Working on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06
• The screaming child of software

June

• Emmm, What do you do exactly?
• iTunes likes the Talking heads
• Be careful who you learn from

May

• Management Speak is such bullshit
• Magicians don't teach
• More stuff, less fluff
• Things that puzzle me

April

• If you want to be popular, you have to give it up easy.
• Stop displaying your email in a Stupid form
• The Perils of Java Schools? Students get jobs!

March

• Defensive Design for the Web
• Harmony indeed
• Use and Usability
• pxn8 ~ The Best Online Picture Editing Web Application
• Announcing Nakatomi ~ The definitive web 2.0 product

February

• I hated php back when it was cool
• How to Install Byzanz on Ubuntu Breezy
• Scribes ~ a new Programming Editor
• Scientific Writing
• Parkinsons Law, the story of the bikeshed
• Gnome, Internet Explorer 7, EasyUbuntu and more

January

• Trick Questions
• My presentation at ACE 2006
• The world needs more Online Bookmark Managers
• Teaching Second Year Data Structures.
• Thoughts from Tasmania

2005

December

• Pandora and foXpose
• Phishfood
• Apache and 404s

November

• I've been reading
• Smart People with stupid pictures
• A very simple Apache redirect

October

• The Non Designers Design Book.
• Students are the only bottom line that matters
• Flock
• ICER Workshop, Seattle
• AJAX for the beginner

September

• Back from Lahinch.
• What I'm up to

August

• Hackers and Painters
• How to get music off your iPod
• All programming languages are the same...
• Javascript and the Web
• Paddy Power Irony
• F16s and Programming
• Automated Grading is Not Automated Assessment
• Slashdot Comment

July

• Gnome 2.12
• Final Year Projects/ Latex
• The Best Software Writing I
• Making Ubuntu Usable as a Home Desktop Environment
• Closing the Gap for Linux
• Phenomena, do dooo do do du
• Synergy Rocks the Socks
• PHP, I just don't like it.
• Upgrade test
• Are they starting to Listen?
• Win XP, Not so dumb, Not so smart.
• Coming back around again...

March

• The Traynor 12 Step Guide to Better Lecturing

Thats all there is. Hope you liked some of it!