Thomas Hambach - Web engineer

March 31st, 2008 Posted in rant

If you are a real developer, there should be a huge smile appearing on your face. Thanks to coding horror! Get the bumper sticker version of it while they’re hot!

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March 13th, 2008 Posted in rant

The launch of the new website of “De Kreuners” was announced 2 weeks in advance on almost every radio station, in many magazines and even on national television. Since I’m a huge fan of them (read: they’re alright), I had to endure 2 weeks of sleepless nights, constantly pondering how awesome the new website would be!

As of today, the new website of “De Kreuners” has been made available. But can we call the new website an improvement? Was it really worth all those nights pressing the f5 button repeatedly, hoping to catch a glimpse of it? Read on!

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December 8th, 2007 Posted in rant

1. snap.com pop-ups when you hover over an external link in a news/blog post. They are just as annoying as pop up ads telling me I have won a trip to the sunny beaches of Hawaii! If I want to see the website, I’ll click on the link.
2. Advertising fest. Place your ads wisely or make it seem like they aren’t ads. Adding them wildly across your page distracts me from actually reading your content. Not to mention, most of these ads are loaded off-site and increase your website loading time.
3. Your website uses AJAX/AJAH to load in big chunks or all of your website content. Making it impossible to bookmark a page.
4. I cannot see whether a piece of text is a hyperlink. At least have the decency to give it another color, making it bold or underlining it.
5. The contrast between your text and the background colour is too high or too low. For example… pink on baby blue or dark gray on black.
6. “We are working on this page” or “Under construction”. Preferably with an image that has the text “Don’t worry, Homer is on the job, man!“. If your website isn’t done, don’t put it online or at least hide the pages that aren’t done.

What can annoy you when browsing a website? Leave a comment!

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October 8th, 2007 Posted in rant

I just read a post concerning time management and I must say my boss wouldn’t be too happy with most of these suggestions…

1. Don’t check your e-mail first thing in the morning.
From now on, I’ll ignore every top-priority e-mail that has been sent to me and read them before I go home. Then I can forget all about it while I walk to the bus stop and wait in the blistering cold for a bus that’ll come an hour late.

2. Commute by taking mass transit or carpooling.
Yeah, with all those friendly people on an overcrowded bus and winter coming up, I really look forward to getting up in the morning.

4. Don’t respond to e-mails as they arrive

What are you saying? Your house is on fire? Well, that’ll just have to wait, I’m really busy cleaning our brand new firetruck!

5. Don’t personal e-mail at work.
One of the few points I agree on…

7. Don’t read papers, e-mail newsletters or distributions lists.
I have better things to do than listen to what people are saying around me. I have work to do? Quickly scanning through an e-mail will surely save me more time than getting into a discussion with one of my co-workers.

9. Leave meetings when they are over due.
Screw you boss I’m going home, over due meetings is where I draw the line.

10. Ignore the phone
Oh yeah they called. Someone’s house was on fire? Yeah could be, but it seemed like a waste of time to pick up the phone… I did clean that new fire truck again.

Either way, Ravi made a good attempt at listing things that are a waste of time but it’s just not that simple as we all wish it would be.

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