By Sushant Anand on October 21, 2009
I’ve compiled a list of UX resources. I scan through these from time to time and subscribe through most feeds through RSS. Lately, though i’ve been getting a lot more usability pointers from Twitter. Check out the list mashable created for 10 Must-Follow Usability Experts on Twitter: http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/twitter-usability/
Posted in regular | Tagged usability, ux
By Sushant Anand on October 21, 2009
Everyone loves the current darling of programming Q&A sites: StackOverflow. It was only a matter of time before others crowded this space with niche websites similar to it. Yesterday a new Q&A site: UXExchange was announced for user experience professionals. StackOverflow already covered a lot of user experience questions and i’ve often referred to it to get others perspective on some design decisions. But, having a new, free, collaborative Q&A site for user experience professionals is a pretty sweet deal.
One important factor i consider when reading, listening to recommendations or following user experience professionals is how their own website is designed. Naturally, excited about what’s in store, i checked out their website. Boy, was i disappointed. The entire site is lifted straight from StackOverflow including their achievements model. Wish these guys would have given the site design a little more thought.
EDIT: Matt Goddard (the creator of UXEchange’s) from comments below:
“Thanks for the review. UXExchange isn’t a copy of the stackoverflow format, it is hosted on the stackexchange format (The platform Fog Creek developed out of stackoverflow)
This was a conscious choice as i wanted good answer to be promoted over bad answers, hopefully creating a solid repository of information not just the opinion of one practitioner but validated by the community.”
Nonetheless, be sure to check them out. There are amazing usability blogs out there but i have not yet had the best incentives to stick to a particular community. UXExchange.com holds some promise. A little about them:
The goal is to build a community-led, authoritative resource on the User Experience disciplines. It’s a place where people new to our industry can ask questions about best practice and approaches to user experience and where experienced practitioners can help teach new skills and learn from each other. Like Stack Overflow (the platform this site is built on), we don’t run UX Exchange – the community does. It is collaboratively built and maintained by you. If you like a question or answer, up-vote it. If you don’t, down-vote it. Over time, UX Exchange will become increasingly valuable when there is a consensus on good information which will serve the community for the future.
Posted in regular | Tagged ux
By Sushant Anand on October 20, 2009
Soon after i got a WordPress blog running i started getting a Fatal Memory error that i had no clue how to solve. After some researching on Google i found the cause to be the plugins i was running in my theme. What sucked most about this mess was that i had lost all ability to access my Dashboard and thus remove the plugins.
Luckily, i found that the trick to restoring my dashboard was to increase PHP memory for cache. There are 3 basic steps that helped me get rid of this error:
- Open the file
wp-includes/cache.php and place the following code immediately after the opening <?php tag:
ini_set('memory_limit','64M'); // set memory to prevent fatal errors
- After that, create an htaccess file for the
wp-includes directory and insert the following directive:
# set memory limit for cache.php
php_value memory_limit 64M
- Finally, create a local
php.ini file in the same directory (wp-includes) and insert this:
;; set memory limit for cache.php
memory_limit = 64M
These steps should help get rid of the memory error. Remember, when upgrading WordPress installations, the cache.php file must be modified again.
Posted in regular | Tagged php, wordpress
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