Yesterday I celebrated mothers day with friends and family, along with much of the rest of the US. A day earlier I sat on a bench between the Apple Store and Barnes and Nobles after an epic Cobb salad from CPK (it should be for $13.49.) One tablet would be the winner of my hard fought dollars, but beyond the weighing of cost and features the forcing function of time drove a decision.
Never make a client wait
I’ve made and continue to make mistakes while experimenting. My earliest design faux pas was forcing clients to wait on long page loads while applications daisy chain remote APIs (big no no). A better way to connect remote APIs is through asynchronous calls or background processes.
I’ve been following Kevin’s work for several years, and am psyched in a extreme fanboyish manner to have pre-ordered a copy of What Technology Wants. It’s out now so I invite urge you to purchase it here. Kevin’s latest work is based on his blogging on The Technium of which I’ve read a good cross section of posts.
