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User Centered Usability Design

This week I’ve learned about usability design centered on the users’ perspective, here are my favorites quotes from the book I’m reading:
“include in the definition of ’users’ those who manage direct users, those who receive products from the system, those who test the system, those who make the purchase decision and those who use competitive products”.
“When [...]

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Busy Days

I’ve been busy with my master lately I’m in two very interesting classes, one e-business related and the second one related to interface design (I’m very interested on this one).
I’ll let you a couple of sites related to interface design interaction, http://www.useit.com and http://asktog.com.
I’m going to publish some of my first learning on this class [...]

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Zend Debugger + Eclipse + Apache

I wanted to install the zend debugger with eclipse and apache, and found this spanish tutorial, and want to resume the steps I followed:
I assume you have already installed eclipse 3.3 + pdt.
1. Download the corresponding debugger from: http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/server-debugger/, I use amd64 so I got ZendDebugger-5.2.12-linux-glibc23-x86_64.tar.gz.
2. Untar the file in a directory in your home, [...]

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PHP MSSQL 2005 Problem - Solved

Trying to make a connection to a MS SQL Server 2005 database from PHP, I always got an error message using the mssql_connect saying:
Warning: mssql_connect() [function.mssql-connect]: Unable to connect to server: {servername}.
I tried several solutions like, updating the ntwdblib.dll (on windows; I had the same error on linux) library, configuring the tcp/ip properties on sqlexpress [...]

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