One Click Away

Here is a blog posting refuting the hypothesis that minimizing the number of clicks is necessary for good GUI design. I agree. If an application has a lot of functions, and everything is a click away, users may have information overload. It may take them longer to figure out where or what to click to accomplish an action. A menu tree is not necessarily always a bad idea.

MySQL Proxy

I need to investigate MySQL Proxy. It might be useful for some future projects at work.

Only Design What You Can Implement

There is an interesting posting on the MySQL Performance Blog about only implementing features that will meat performance goals.

Feed sort order

I saw a post that explained how get Blogger's feed sorted by publish date. In summary, look at the blog's page source to find the content generated by this tag in the template:

<b:data='blog' name='all-head-content'>

The block of content should look something like this:

<meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'/>
<meta content='true' name='MSSmartTagsPreventParsing'/>
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>
.
.
.
<link href='http://www2.blogger.com/rsd.g?blogID=xxxxx' rel='EditURI' title='RSD' type='application/rsd+xml'/>

Comment out the all-head-content tag and replace it with the block of content from the HTML source. Then, add ?orderby=published to the href of the Atom feed, and &orderby=published to the href of the rss feed.