So what is a developer experience anyway?

From now on, instead of posting on blogs.gotdotnet.com , I'll be posting to weblogs.asp.net/stevencl instead. If anyone is interested in catching up on the series of postings on how to use the Cognitive Dimensions to evaluate your own API, I've...

Here's the next in the series of posts for using the Cognitive Dimensions framework... For each user goal that the API supports, describe the tasks that the user has to implement to accomplish that goal. For example, in the System.IO namespace one...

Continuing my series of posts on using the cognitive dimensions framework. I have a few to catch up on...here's the next on how to evaluate the work step unit for your API. For each user goal that the API supports, describe the tasks that the user...

An interesting question came up today on the issue of making all collection based properties read only. In the usability studies we’ve done up to now, we’ve primarily focused on collection based properties where the class exposing the property can...

  The next installment in using the cognitive dimensions... For each user goal that the API supports, describe the minimum amount of information that the user needs to maintain while working with the API. This is different to the learning...

Brad Abrams recently asked me if I knew of any research that investigated whether or not mixed case words (WebClient) are easier to recognize than all upper case words (WEBCLIENT).   I wasn t immediately aware of any research on...