December 2005 - Posts

Krzysztof’s Laws of API Design
I always thought about writing down the laws of APIs design. By "laws", I mean principles that don’t seem to change based on the particular scenario at hand, whether the API is low of high level, etc. Here is my first try. I would appreciate any comments. Read More...
Posted 20 December 05 11:48 by kcwalina | 8 Comments   
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I don’t like the “Base” suffix
Today, I was reviewing a set of recommendation for naming types intended to be inherited from. The author suggested using the “Base” suffix for such types. I personally don’t like to do this. Here are the reasons: First, what do you call base of a base Read More...
Posted 16 December 05 07:54 by kcwalina | 4 Comments   
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Channel 9 video showing a real usability study
Channel 9 just posted a video in which our API usability engineers talk about one of the studies they conducted recently, but what’s even more interesting, in part two of the story, they show a clip from an actual study where a participant writes a workflow Read More...
Posted 02 December 05 03:09 by kcwalina | 0 Comments   
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