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design & interaction, photos & code blog galleries about investigating foundations click to expand some eight years back i moved to the netherlands with my job and full of youthful enthusiasm set about buying a house. unfortunately one little tiny teeny thing escaped me… the value of having a surveyor check that the place i was going to buy was structurally sound! oops! so here we are in 2012 facing at the very least a major renovation and with the possibility of needing the foundations underpinning. being an engineer i like to tackle the problems from the root upwards so the foundations are the obvious first place to start. after visiting the local archive office it turned out i was unable to find any drawings or other information about the actual foundations of the house other than that they were wooden poles. luckily i did find a company ( wareco.nl ) who would, for an exorbitant fee, come and investigate the state of the foundations. last week a man rang my bel at 7:45am… he was here to begin digging a whole in front of my house to expose the foundations. well, unfortunately at that time of the morning almost no one had left for work so, with this being a narrow street, there were cars and vans parked all across the front of the place… work would have to wait. by 8am said man was getting agitated about the slipping schedule so i began to ring on doorbells and ‘meet’ the neighbours. none of whom seemed overly happy to have a rumbling digger just outside their window that early in the morning. on the other hand they were really helpful and wanted to chat about the works and their experiences of foundations. often i hear people around saying that the dutch are not friendly and won’t talk or help but i’m just not finding that to be the case. anyway, it worked, 20 minutes later we had cleared 5 parking spaces and we could begin digging. of course, this being holland, it had begun to rain in earnest again so it wasn’t exactly an ideal environment to be digging holes in the street so when i say we… i mean the two contractors began digging whilst i cowered in the doorway staying dry. ah, so that is the benefit of paying someone else to do the work haarlem appears to be built on sand over a thin layer of clay, a layer of peat, and then yet more sand. and it’s below sea level. what a wonderful spot to try and build houses! to get around the lack of solid ground the builders sank long wooden poles deep into the ground until they found firmer earth (i’m told by a dutchman that they don’t actually reach the bedrock, just dense enough earth to be stable) and then built on top of. well, when our digging man had the hole deep enough that he couldn’t see out anymore he finally reach the foundation poles… they stop 1.8m below the surface. on top of the poles a long wooden beam is laid and on top of that the walls are built. that’s an awful lot of wall that is underground… must have been an impressive feat for the men building this back at the turn of the 20th century (1901 to be precise). a bit more digging and he was able to clear the earth from under my wall and put his arms all the way around each of the poles. so once again the front of my house was indeed standing on nothing but the poles. it appears that there are four poles under the front wall and four under the back wall and a couple (somewhere between two and four… the man wasn’t sure) under each of the side walls. once they had exposed 3 of the poles 2 more guys turned up to do the investigation. the first shocker was that one of them was wearing clogs! amazing… i never really believed that people actually used them until now. ok, so they punched a bunch of holes in the wood with a spring loaded bar and measured how deep it penetrated, they took lots of photos and measurements, and then they took samples. i was shocked to see how much wood they cut away (a big chunk chiselled off and a core sample from each of the poles). and that was it. they take the samples back to the lab for analysis and send me a report in a few weeks time. the hole was quickly filled back in and by 3pm it was all over. obviously i took lots of pictures and you can see more of them and in larger size over in my house foundations gallery . see also building foundations house renovation comments are closed. community content (no approved comments so far) click to expand comments are closed. it doesn’t have to be easy to use click to expand when people are specifying software one often hears the phrase ‘it must be easy to use’. i rather think this is jumping the gun… the first and most important requirement should be more along the lines of ‘it must make the users life easier’ or ‘it must add new value to a users world’. and if we think hard enough about it then ‘add value’ is really just an extension of ‘makes easier’… how so? the ‘added value’ always has a goal, whether it be peer recognition, money, or sex appeal the user is still trying to achieve something by adding value to their lives and if the software enables that then it is in fact making their lives easier. without that (often ignored) step the product is doomed… no matter how easy the software is to use if it doesn’t make the users life easier then why are they going to use it in the first place? this also helps explain why some dire products are actually successes. they may be an utter pain the behind to use and they may crash 50 times a day but if i take all that into account they still make my work possible or easier then i will still use them. ‘easy to use’ is by far the secondary consideration. of course… once you have a product that makes the users life easier or better then ‘easy to use’ becomes much more important… after all who would voluntarily opt for something harder to use? oh, right, power users would. these folks will trade ‘easy to use’ for ‘makes my life even easier’ in a heartbeat. power users seem to prefer consistency and predictability over mere ease of use. they will gladly invest hours of learning provided a) their lives get easier to use, and b) the effort is rewarded by unlocking even more potential. ordinary users however will not invest hours of learning… in fact for a large majority if it isn’t obvious in a few seconds how to achieve something it is already too complex. i’ve watched people type in a word and then click the ‘bold’ button… when nothing happens their first thought isn’t “oh, i forgot to select the text” it’s more like “hmmm… the bold feature doesn’t work” . of course what we have is a gradient of users from the most disinterested all the way up to the ‘expert power user’. however they all have one thing in common… they are trying to make their lives easier by getting something done. i believe this then is the baseline from which all software development must begin… who are the users and how does this software make their life easier? see also design software ui comments are closed. community content (2 approved comments so far) click to expand on 1 october 2011 nancy said... thanks for the share! nancy.r on 23 august 2011 rtyecript said... i really liked the article, and the very cool blog personal storage is nigh click to expand this is an idea that pops up every so often but i think we are close to seeing it become reality. stop and think for a moment about your gadgets. maybe you have a desktop at work, one at home, a business laptop, a netbook you take on holiday, a kindle for reading and an ipad for the couch. possibly you’ve got an iphone and a fridge that plays tunes in your kitchen. as a consumer you are constantly being told that you need bigger, faster, more, better. faster cpu’s, better graphics, longer games, more information, more storage. but really that’s all just marketing. i’m willing to bet that what you really want is more gratification, to be more lazy, to get the hotter girls, to have more fun. we see from the iphone that the multi-gigabyte hd games we have been sold on the pc for years are often outperformed in terms of fun by games targeted at small screens, consisting of a few tens of megabytes. we watch videos on our ipads and find it fine. we watch terrestrial tv and the most annoying thing is rarely the quality of the image but more often than not the content or the impossible to follow sound. we surf the web everywhere and almost every device lets us store bookmarks, leaving our history fragmented and broken. we listen to audio all over the places and painstakingly replicating our music libraries from device to device. often a track is on one device but not another, or you get two copies of it. every gadget we buy pushes us to have extra hard drive for extra cost. but wouldn’t it be better to have a single device that stores all our data and allow all our other gadgets to hook up to it and access whatever is needed? funny enough we already have such a device. the smartphone. we carry smart phones with us everywhere, they come equipped with wireless communications, batteries, loads of flash storage, and we are already used to charging them every night. imagine if you will that your iphone has all your data on it… why then can your ipad not stream the files it needs to and from? why can’t your fridge or your laptop? imagine one set of bookmarks you share everywhere, one place to hunt for that important letter, one music library to maintain. wouldn’t that be easier? more sensible? better for our environment? i think so. sure the technology needs some work to add a little more storage, a little more battery capacity, better wireless serving. but the basics are there and as smart phone makers search for differentiating factors i’m pretty certain this is one area that will be discovered. personal storage will blow away your reliance on the ‘cloud’. why trust a 3rd party with your data? why put your data in place you can’t get to if the internet goes down? why pay for storage you already have that works slower and with less reliability? why install your software multiple times? why not have it on your smart phone to be pulled off and run on your other computers as needed? this brief dalliance with software as a service will go the way of the dodo, it’s only benefit is in charging you more and making our unreliable power and internet infrastructures even more critical. no, the future as i see it has my smart phone acting as my personal storage module and software repository and all my other gadgets as simple (potentially amazing) clients onto it. my world, my pocket, with me everywhere. see also design iphone mobile ui comments are closed. community content (no approved comments so far) click to expand comments are closed. using generic types for mvvm click to expand the mvvm pattern seems to have become the defacto standard for implementing cool wpf applications. rob eisenberg suggested using conventions to help enforce a separation of view and viewmodel. this to me smacks of magic strings which is just not nice. lately i’ve been playing with a different method of doing this using xaml generics. i’d like to share this with the community and see how you all feel about this approach. the basic idea is that all views should derive from a viewbase where t specifies the type of viewmodel they should be built against. for example: assume we have a viewmodel of type someviewmodel and we want to create a view that represents it, all we have to do is create the following xaml: < ve : viewroot x : class = "app.someview" x : typearguments = " vm : someviewmodel " xmlns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns : x = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns : ve = "clr-namespace: viewengine ;assembly=viewframework" > </ ve : viewroot > and a code behind file: public partial class someview : viewroot < someviewmodel > { public someview() { initializecomponent(); } } and bingo… our application will use someview everywhere someviewmodel occurs in the visual tree. because of the data binding system we can now build our view referencing the view model, so assuming there is a title property in the view model we can write this to a label like this: < ve : viewroot x : class = "app.someview" x : typearguments = " vm : someviewmodel " xmlns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns : x = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns : ve = "clr-namespace: viewengine ;assembly=viewframework" > < label content ="{ binding title } " /> </ ve : viewroot > no naming conventions, no datatemplate writing, just completely transparent intent. framework wire-up of course this doesn’t happen out of the box and requires a framework and a little global wiring up. let’s start with the simple bit, wiring it up, and then get to explaining how this works behind the scenes. to make it simple i did away with the app.xaml startup system and went back to the old static main in program.cs approach… i have no doubt it could be integrated into the app.xaml system if needed. [ stathread ] public static void main() { var app = new application (); viewengine .initialise(app, assembly .getexecutingassembly()); viewengine .run( new windowviewmodel ()); } simple huh? framework of course all the magic and challenge happens in the framework itself. the basic principle is straightforward: scan the provided assembly and find all subclasses of viewroot . set up mappings between the viewclasses and their models. wrap those in datatemplates. load the data templates into the applications root resourcedictionary. the rest is handled by wpf for us. there are however a couple of challenges to using generics in wpf that make this more complex than one might expect. access to properties not being able to access things like resourcedictionary properties on the children of a generic type. fix: create a 2 stage derivation of viewroot, the first called viewroot and the second called viewroot . this allows us to use the convention in the xaml and keeps the established xaml conventions runnings. public class rootview <t> : rootview { } public class rootview : contentcontrol { } top level windows of course top level windows cannot be derived from contentcontrol and must be derived from window so we have to introduce some special case handling. its own assembly as i discovered in one of my earlier posts on xaml it is important to build the viewengine in a separate assembly. view engine still it’s pretty plain sailing, in fact a whole viewengine class can be presented here. obviously this isn’t commercial ready but it gives you a base to play with. public interface iview { } internal interface iviewroot : iview { } public class viewroot <t> : viewroot { } public abstract class viewroot : contentcontrol , iviewroot { } public class windowroot <t> : windowroot { } public abstract class windowroot : window , iview { } public static class viewengine { private static application sapp; public static void initialise( application app, params assembly [] assemblieswithviews) { sapp = app; createviewviewmodelmapping(assemblieswithviews); } public static window run( object viewmodel) { var rootwindow = createrootwindow(viewmodel); sapp.run(rootwindow); return rootwindow; } private static void createviewviewmodelmapping( ienumerable < assembly > assemblieswithviews) { foreach ( var assemblywithviews in assemblieswithviews) addviewtypestotemplates(assemblywithviews.gettypes()); } private static void addviewtypestotemplates( ienumerable < type > potentialviewtypes) { foreach ( var potentialviewtype in potentialviewtypes) if (typeimplementsvalidviewinterface(potentialviewtype)) addviewtypemapping(potentialviewtype); } private static bool typeimplementsvalidviewinterface( type potentialviewtype) { if ( typeof ( iview ).isassignablefrom(potentialviewtype)) return potentialviewtype.basetype.getgenericarguments().length > 0; return false ; } private static void addviewtypemapping( type viewtype) { var modeltype = viewtype.basetype.getgenericarguments()[0]; if ( typeof ( iviewroot ).isassignablefrom(viewtype)) { var template = new datatemplate (modeltype); var visualfactory = new frameworkelementfactory (viewtype); template.visualtree = visualfactory; sapp.resources.add(template.datatemplatekey, template); } else sapp.resources.add(modeltype, viewtype); } private static type findviewformodeltype( type modeltype) { return sapp.resources[modeltype] as type ; } private static window createrootwindow( object viewmodel) { type viewtype = findviewformodeltype(viewmodel.gettype()); if (viewtype == null ) throw new exception ( string .format( "no view for viewmodel type: {0}" , viewmodel.gettype().name)); var view = activator .createinstance(viewtype); var window = view as window ; if (window == null ) throw new exception ( string .format( "could not initialise root windowview({0})" , viewmodel.gettype().name)); window.datacontext = viewmodel; return window; } } in case you also need an example mainwindow it is straightforward: < ve : windowroot x : class = "app.mainwindow" x : typearguments = " windowviewmodel " xmlns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns : x = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns : ve = "clr-namespace: viewengine ;assembly= viewengine " title ="{ binding titleproperty } " height = "300" width = "300" content ="{ binding contentproperty }" > < ve : windowroot . resources > </ ve : windowroot . resources > </ ve : windowroot > have fun and do let me know if you find any way to make this better… see also c# ui wpf xaml comments are closed. community content (1 approved comment so far) click to expand on 28 march 2012 alok said... personally i do not understand why intellisense can’t firuge it out. in your case, a tab in the string for a number is garbage. indeed the xaml parser throws a xamlparseexception. the same goes for a cr (i use the enter key instead of the tab key for completion).to me microsoft should put intelligence into intellisense. it should know that the type of height is int. hence any character outside 0-9 should terminate entering the property and move the cursor beyond the double quote. i will settle for tab or cr mean move the cursor beyond the double quote. force users to use something like ctrl+tab and ctrl+cr if the really need tab and cr in a literal string. i don’t think i have had the need for the latter. masm assembly in visual studio 2010 click to expand recently i have been doing some win32 assembly language programming, extending a simple program with some new functionality. as the program grew in length and complexity i began to miss the syntax highlighting, project management, and debugging abilities of visual studio. googling about suggesed that it was possible to get vs2010 to do what i wanted but it really wasn’t so easy to get it all set up the first time around. in order to save myself figuring this out again, and maybe help one of you dear readers, i’m putting a step by step guide up here. before you start it makes a lot of sense to install support for assembly language syntax highlighting which you can find on this codeplex project . it’s a simple download and run installer. step 1 : create a clean project file | new | project… expand the ‘ other project types ‘ tree, select ‘ visual studio solutions ‘, and create a new ‘ blank solution ‘. file | add | new project… expand the ‘ other languages ‘, ‘ visual c++ ‘, ‘ general ‘ section and create a new ‘ empty project ‘ step 2: acquire the masm options. now right click on the project in the solution explorer and select ‘ build customizations… ‘ tick the ‘ masm ‘ box and say ok. add a new file to the project with the .asm extension by right clicking on the project in the solution explorer and selecting ‘ add | new item… ‘ then ‘ text file ‘. enter a filename ending with .asm (e.g. speedy.asm ). say ok. now (and if you skipped the last steps this won’t work) right click on the project and select ‘ properties ‘. you should see a dialog like this (note the masm item at the bottom of the tree). if you don’t then something went wrong. step 3: configure the linker there are a few critical things to set up in the linker options in order to get it to work: set the following property to windows or console as appropriate configuration properties > linker > system> subsystem set the entry point to the name of your main method (as per the end directive – see code) configuration properties > linker > advanced > entrypoint step 4: write some code & run it lets write a very simple assembly language program to test this out (if you want to learn about assembler you could well try iczelions’ tutorials and the masm forum . .586 .model flat , stdcall option casemap : none ; to get unicode support include \masm32\macros\ucmacros.asm include \masm32\ include \windows.inc include \masm32\ include \kernel32.inc includelib \masm32\lib\kernel32.lib include \masm32\ include \user32.inc includelib \masm32\lib\user32.lib .data ; wstr gets you a unicode string definition wstr wstrtitle, "hello" wstr wstrmessage, "world" .code main: invoke messageboxw, null, addr wstrmessage, addr wstrtitle, mb_ok invoke exitprocess, eax end main note: possibly the most important thing to note here is the ‘end main’ directive. this directive must be present and the name must match the label where you expect execution to kick off and the ‘entrypoint’ we defined in step 3. otherwise things simply won’t work. hit ctrl + shift + b to build (or use the menus etc) and it should build and run showing a simple windows message box. boring but proves it’s working. step 5: set break points and debug it the really cool thing is that now you can set break points and step through your code much as you are used to doing with c++ or c# side note: file extensions a small problem that you might run into is that if you move any macro definitions into their own file you need to be absolutely sure not to call the file .asm. if you do the linker will get horribly confused and go on and on and on about not being able to find the entrypoint. i lost hours trying to figure that one out! call it something .inc instead and all will be good. the other thing is that visual studio seems to create a larger executable (even in release mode) than using masm on the command line. it seems to be something to do with the way it interprets the wstr macro but i’m not 100% certain. still if it becomes a huge issue i can always compile on the command line just before release and i get to enjoy nice debugging in the meantime. so, there you have it. vs2010 compiling win32 assembler by way of the included masm compiler. see also assembler masm visual studio vs2010 comments are closed. community content (19 approved comments so far) click to expand on 27 april 2012 florian mücke said... nice post. i never used masm directly from within visual studio but i did masm32 (www.masm32.com) a lot before even using visual studio. nice to see both combined. the debugging just works marvellous. on 3 april 2012 bill said... is this 32 or 64 bit assembly? on 27 march 2012 d-side said... step-by-step following actually worked until it came up to testing. i copied your code and failed to compile it. that was solved quite easily, there was a “forced error” amongst all, and the text in ucmacros.asm said that it should not be used anymore, as it’s now inside macros.asm. so i wiped “uc” and shifted down that macro inclusion after all the others. it all went right after that step. thanks, that was really useful! quick editor is also cool, but not that much. on 28 november 2011 duncan said... yes. but i don’t know about you but i don’t create that many completely new projects… i guess if it became an issue you could script it… i think all the config files are text based. on 28 november 2011 waleed ehsan said... thanks and we have to do for every new project…………? on 9 september 2011 jakob randa said... very useful to me. thanks! jakob. on 27 august 2011 roberto barcena said... i followed your instructions in visual studio 2008. thank you. on 14 august 2011 pierre-luc gagnon said... great tutorial, very helpful. many thanks! on 21 july 2011 on4lpf said... hello, i have tested it with visual c++ express 2010 and it works perfectly well!! this is important news for all the people who don’t have access to the complete visual studio on 28 may 2011 david f. said... thanks for these tips. i don’t think i would have ever figured out how to do this neat trick otherwise. suspended reality click to expand running fast in the background, going nowhere lately i’ve been doing quite some research on the internet which means i ended up with lots and lots and lots of simultaneously open tabs. this has 2 serious downsides… the first one is obvious: it becomes really hard to find one tab among many. the second one is less obvious… my browser becomes jarringly slow. the slowness really takes over with complex sites all running lots of javascript tickers, flash animations, music players, etc. this is particularly annoying since these background tabs are, without exception, utilising my horsepower to do stuff i can’t see and consequently don’t care about. this led me to thinking… why? why do we allow tab processes to run in the background? here are the things i came up with: downloads uploads streaming music sites like gmail and rss readers intensive long running processing tasks and you know what? nothing i was looking at fell into one of these categories. background processing in tabs has only two ways to let you know anything is going on: by playing audio by changing the title of the site (and then only if the current tab is big enough to show any text). now i personally never want more than one tab to be playing audio at a time… so allowing all tabs to play audio seems like a bad idea from the get go. download, download, and download again i’m a iphone fan… i love the number of daily tasks i can accomplish with the small pocket wonder (more about this another time), especially the ability to read web pages whilst on the go. however, coverage around my area is spotty at best, which means i’m often out of touch with a data signal. this frequent disconnection throws one of the inefficiencies of the web into stark relief. browsers always go back and re-download a page when viewing the users history… so even if i’ve visited the page just a few minutes before, if i no longer have an internet connection, i can’t view it again. this appears to be a question of convenience… but there is another, darker, side to this throwaway approach. when i’m doing a body of work and make a note of a particularly great url i can have zero confidence that tomorrow i will be able to return to that link and find the same content. if it is a blog it may even be that 10 minutes later the content will no longer be available at the same url. it seems to me that it would be much much better if browsers kept the content they downloaded in a giant cache and only fetched a new copy on user demand. in this way all the content i’ve viewed (regardless of the desires of the webmaster) would be available to me again and again. of course… this leads to an issue of space usage… so presumably the oldest pages would have to slowly fall out of the cache, but with today’s giant hard drives and massive flash memory i bet we could store a large chunk of our history. this would change the approach to bookmarking also… when i bookmark a site it would (apart from getting listed in my bookmarks) be flagged as ‘not to discard’, ensuring that whenever i return to the bookmark i can still read the content i was interested in. finally keeping content locally would truly allow me to annotate the pages that i was viewing (think something like the comment reviewing tools in ms word) and build a body of research on a topic that had some real value and context. revisionist history something that has driven me nuts for years is the revisionist approach to web browser histories. when i visit a site and navigate through some links i can use the ‘back’ button to go back in time and the ‘forward’ button to come forward again. however, if i go ‘back’ and then follow a new link the entire previous future is thrown away in place of the new future. in the graphic below the ‘red’ route (top) is completely forgotten. but what if just wanted to check a quick fact and then return to where i was? yep… i have to go ‘back’ and then painstakingly retrace my previous steps one link at a time. the same occurs when i open a link in a new tab… *bang* the history from the previous tab is not carried over… there is no way for me to find out how i came to have that tab open. there is no real technical reason for this… computers are completely capable of remembering the full history (in fact it is little more than a simple tree) and also of copying it between tabs. the ‘back’ button works well, but in my opinion the ‘forward’ button, and new link navigation behaviour is horribly broken. the forward button should remember all the routes you have browsed and (whilst it may default to the most recent) should offer then the choice of which route to follow when going forward. putting it together with those three thoughts formed it seems that they are a perfect match. imagine a world in which a browser stores our full history (not just the current timeline) with all the content of the pages, then when the user navigates away or changes tab also stores the current execution state of the scripts in the cache. suddenly our browser only has to run one set of scripts and keep one page loaded in memory at any given time. we can return at will to pages we have seen before regardless of whether we have an internet connection available, we can annotate and cross-reference pages, and we can implement a history browser that lets us see multiple navigation routes. we could even display the users history in a revision tree much like we use in version control. downsides as with every idea this one is not without its downsides. chief among these are the lack of backward compatibility with the current browser model and plugins, but there are a bunch more: site owners would see a dramatic reduction in ‘hits’. advertisers would ship less ‘fresh’ adverts. it would require a new ui to allow certain sites to be flagged as ‘background’ tasks (e.g. streaming audio sites, gmail) which would allow processing when hidden. users would probably need some kind of ui element reminding them that the content they were seeing was, possibly, not the most up-to-date content on the site. there would need to be a clear separation of ‘upload’ and ‘download’ activities so that these did not get suspended by tab backgrounding (although i think for the most part browsers already do this). conclusion i could see this being a much nicer web experience… but sadly inertia probably means it won’t come to pass. see also design web comments are closed. community content (no approved comments so far) click to expand comments are closed. folders vs labels click to expand an endless gripe with gmail has been that it uses labels in place of hierarchical folders to organise mail. this is great in some ways since we have all encountered the situation where a mail appears to belong in more than one folder, but irritating in that it isn’t possible to keep a nested set of categories for your mail. labs to the rescue a recent ‘labs project’ from google has attempted to solve this with the use of specially formatted labels – i.e. any label with a slash in it can appear like it is in a folder. for example if we wanted a simple folder structure as follows: we could create 4 labels: people people/dave people/john people/karren and the google “nested labels” labs extension will make this show up as complete with the little collapse folder icon (which works) and all the expected label colours. seems like the problem has been solved wonderfully right? wrong! fundamentals unfortunately this is what our american brothers would refer to as ‘lipstick on a pig’… it’s a cosmetic fix that does nothing to alleviate the fundamental problem. imagine if i rename the ‘people’ label to ‘friends’… uh oh. that’s very unlikely to be the result i wanted and highlights the point that all this is still just visual trickery. in addition if you have the option to display labels in front of all the e-mails you receive you will see the full label (folder, slashes, and all) on every e-mail. so in my opinion this lab, although really handy, rather misses the point. sub-classification what we are looking for is sub-classification and being able to treat groups of mails as if they were one item. this can, i think, be achieved in a relatively simple solution. we need only get a little bit meta on our labels. if we could apply labels to labels as well as to mail we would be sorted. imagine i have 10 mails labelled ‘john’ and 5 labelled ‘mike’. now all i have to do is create a ‘friends’ label and apply that to the labels ‘john’ and ‘mike’ and presto… all the benefits of folders with the added benefit that i could also label ‘john’ with a ‘colleague’ label. no mail duplication, no hard folders, multiple sub-categorisation, and the ability to manipulate mails as grouped items. simple. going further but why stop with mail? this can also be done for contacts, tasks, documents, events, etc. in fact, why maintain separate sets of labels? imagine i have a group of contacts called ‘friends’ why do i need to manually create a label in my mail called ‘friends’ and then create filters to add that label to all the mail from my friends? it doesn’t seem a big step to have this label automatically applied. and the benefit of a common label system? if one of my ‘friends’ becomes an ‘enemy’ then all the material related to that person moves automatically simplifying my filing and admin tasks. hiding via settings of course sometimes i will have labels related to one thing that i don’t want to show up everywhere – a common labels system could generate a lot of labels) – but as is already demonstrated in gmail this is actually just a question of display and could be cleanly handled by extending the ability to ‘show/hide’ labels to the ability to ‘show/hide for each section’. auto filtering finally why can we only apply filters to mails? i should be able to set up filters for my documents, contacts, appointments, etc as well. imagine i’m working at a company (abcorp) and i want to keep all the information about that company labelled together – it should be possible to create a filter that labels any item (document, mail, contact, etc) that contains the word abcorp automatically. so how do we make this? at this point we have a unified simply filing system that fulfils all the benefits of labels, folders, filters and has none of the drawbacks. unfortunately it requires google to modify their backend to allow application of labels to labels and it requires deep integration of their disparate services. this is no small ui fix. i believe it is likely it could be done without breaking existing data but without access to googles core systems it’s impossible to know. so sadly… after you’ve slogged all the way down to here… this probably isn’t something we are going to see any time soon see also design google web comments are closed. community content (2 approved comments so far) click to expand on 5 october 2010 email form said... i am doing research for my college thesis, thanks for your brilliant points, now i am acting on a sudden impulse. - laura on 23 september 2010 arend v. reinersdorff said... sounds like you would like the labellinks userscript. it allows you to put a gmail label into many parent labels: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/79494 designing for a touch world click to expand in this series i plan to explore some of the issues of touch ui’s, this is as much a documentation of my learning experiences as it is anything else. the content will be based primarily on observation and conjecture so while i find the information helpful it is up to you to verify its suitability to your situation. if you have contradictory viewpoints, additional ideas/information, or real ‘study results’ please chime in in the user content section – the more we talk about these things the better our ui’s will get. ok, on to the first installment… smart phone touch when you think of modern smartphones you probably expect a touch screen. seems that touch would be an easy medium to design for, after all your user can see and interact directly with the content. as it turns out this isn’t actually the case… fingers are big, fat, clumsy pointing devices and the point of contact between your finger and the screen is not at all easy to determine. worse, once you touch the screen you completely obscure whatever it was you were trying to interact with. people tend to judder and bounce (especially on the train or tram) and it is very easy to end up with accidental touches. add this to the seriously limited screen space, potential for unwanted palm contact, and the extremely limited range motion available (try using a mobile device one handed) and it begins to seem that creating a good experience is almost impossible. thankfully this extreme is also not the case. i think mostly because they are obscuring the screen (or more importantly desperately trying not to obscure the screen) most people seem to touch the screen slightly below their point of attention. android devices seem to struggle a lot with taking this into account, apple’s iphone on the other hand excels at it. at times the iphone seems almost psychic in its ability to correctly identify the part you were trying to touch. so this variation is something to take into account when developing ui’s on these mobile platforms… on android aim to have a bigger touch target and require less precision. side note: in some ways it is a shame that all the excitement over capacitative touch screens and finger input has completely sidelined the stylus… sure the stylus isn’t ideal for everything but for some tasks it beats the hell out of fingers and has the added benefit of mostly leaving the screen visible. i for one am hoping to see the stylus make a return at some point in the near future. the availability of touch. there are only a limited number of touch gestures available. more with multiple fingers obviously but the more fingers your are trying to interpret the great the chance you will get incorrect inputs. what are the types of touch input you can reasonably expect from a user using one finger and holding the phone in their hand at the same time? tap this one is pretty obvious to most users, touch and release without movement (or at least very little movement – no one can hold perfectly still). contact times vary depending on the user – some people press firmly and hope for some feedback, others stab at it quickly and with force hoping for a better result, some touch it as if it is fragile. your ui probably shouldn’t discriminate between these actions. swipe touch and drag the finger across the screen in a more or less constant line. also pretty much an expectation. the easiest swipes are in order: sweep an approx 1/4 arc (for right-handers from mid-right to top-left or vice-versa), top-to-bottom, left-to-right, right-to-left, bottom-to-top. other swipes such as on the diagonal are possible but markedly harder to perform. drag touch and drag the finger across the screen in a variable line… potentially with many changes in direction. obviousness depends on the context but with appropriate cues most people will get it. flick the ‘flick’ is also fairly intuitive, however it seems that when a user is about to flick the screen they subtly change their grip on the device leading to a difference between the flick and the swipe. ease of flicks in order: top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, left-to-right, right-to-left (harder). other flicks are possible but non-obvious and require much more dexterity and conscious attention. long press less obvious but once learned becomes second nature. the press, hold, release without moving the finger to get a long press. expect to have to explain to the users how this one works if you are overloading the tap gesture on the same ui element. circulate if you figure that most people holding a device one handed will be interacting with it using their thumb another relatively easy gesture is to touch and circulate your finger as if rotating around a clock face. this one doesn’t see much use and is less obvious than the above. for right-handers anti-clockwise motion is marginally easier. expect to have to explain to the users how this one works. others you might imagine other things such as double-tap but due to the screen obscuring issue getting in the way of user feedback such gestures are less reliable/obvious. you can of course use them, but think long and hard first. next time i’ll look at multi-touch gestures, and then follow up with some information about using these gestures and what the user means when they touch your screen. computing is personal… touch even more so see also gestures mobile touch ui comments are closed. community content (1 approved comment so far) click to expand on 17 december 2010 daniel said... great post, thanks for sharing sharply handling errors click to expand as we all know c# provides for relatively elegant handling of errors with its try {} catch {} finally {} construct. there are a couple of gotchas such as threadexceptions which bypass this stack and can only be caught at application level but for the most part it works ok. however, there is one bug bear that drives me nuts, nuts enough that i have to write about it. catching multiple exception types to catch multiple types of exception coming out of a block of code we are forced to write multiple catch() blocks, one for each type of exception. if it makes sense from an application perspective to treat these differently then no problem, however, if we want to catch a lot of different exception types and perform some relatively simple logic on them (such as logging and re-throwing) it can be really irritating (not to mention buggy and hard to read) to maintain a long list of blocks. sure, we can factor out our exception handling into its own method, but this breaks the readability of the code and still requires a long list of “ catch (…) { handleerror ();} ” statements which is a pain. wouldn’t it be nice if instead we could use syntax more like the using statement? catch ( argumentexception ) catch ( outofmemoryexception ) catch ( unathorisedaccessexception ) catch ( customexception ) { // handle error here } now i realise that this has a problem, kind of a big one – what about the error object? well, that brings me first to another point… why do we always have to name our error object ex? catch ( exception ex){} since we can only ever have a single error object inside a given catch block couldn’t we do something more like the set{} accessors? i.e. automatically name the object “value”? e.g. catch ( argumentexception ) { var msg = value .message; // handle error here } well, yes and no. i mean it looks nice and i have no doubt it would function… but unfortunately we can nest try-catch blocks within each other… so we would get name clashes (which instance of “value” are we talking about…). should we ever nest try-catch blocks within a catch block? i can’t say i ever have… i would argue that if error handling gets that complex it should be moved out to its own method. unfortunately someone somewhere has probably done this so introducing this automated error handling would be a breaking change assuming such a change was possible then we could handle the multiple exception types realtively nicely by simply having the type of ‘value’ be the base type exception. why is this valid? because by catching multiple exception types in a single handler we have already declared that we do not have any interest in their specific contents… so being able to get the basic data should be more than enough. catch ( argumentexception ) catch ( outofmemoryexception ) catch ( unathorisedaccessexception ) catch ( customexception ) { log ( value .message); application . exit (); } sadly this is all a pipe dream, but i’d love to hear your thoughts on it… especially if you are a frequent user of nested catch blocks. update i thought about this some more and came up with another syntax which might work and which perhaps could be done without making it a breaking change: catch ( argumentexception , outofmemoryexception , unathorisedaccessexception , customexception ) as ex { log (ex.message); application . exit (); } since we currently can’t use commas in the catch() part by introducing a comma we notate instantly that we are using the new syntax, we can list as many types as needed with minimal effort, and we can re-use (read abuse) the ‘as’ keyword to name the resulting object. in this way we can have everything we want without breaking existing code… always a bonus connect turns out i’m not the only user with this desire… i found this microsoft connect sugestion on the same topic see also c# comments are closed. community content (no approved comments so far) click to expand comments are closed. basic xaml part 4 (generics) click to expand by default xaml only supports generics in the definition of types (or in other words the root element). it does this by using more x: magic. the x: typearguments attribute lets the type derive from a generic class. lets take a simple base class with a single generic type parameter t. [system.windows.markup.contentproperty( "propertyone" )] public class simplebase<t> { public object propertyone { get; set; } public t propertytwo { get; set; } } then we can pretty easily create a xaml derivation of it so: < custom:simplebase x:class ="testtype" x:typearguments ="sys:string" xmlns:sys ="clr-namespace:system;assembly=mscorlib" xmlns:custom ="clr-namespace:consoleapplication1;assembly=" xmlns:x ="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" </ custom:simplebase > apart from the odd way of specifying it (and honestly how else would we do it in xml?) this works. however; all is not quite as it seems… if you now try and set any kind of property on the object or any kind of nested content the compiler accept it but the runtime will blow up in your face with one of a bewildering array of possible error messages, most of which are as helpful as salt water on a boat. why? turns out the reason is pretty obvious once you know . when the xaml is compiled it generates a new type, when we try to set the properties using initialisecomponent() the runtime basically uses reflection under the covers, however it cannot correctly determine the class name because it seems to ignore the generic type argument. i almost consider this a bug in the xaml system . anyway, as normal the most important thing is to know how to get around the problem. and the trick appears to be to only set proeprties from xaml that are declared on a base class of our generic type, muchly irritating because in this way we loose half the power of generics but (as we will see in another post) still more useful than nothing. [system.windows.markup.contentproperty( "propertyone" )] public class basicbase { public object propertyone { get; set; } public string propertytwo { get; set; } } public class simplebase<t> : basicbase { } i think therefore that it is fair to class the generics support of xaml is pretty limited! side note: multiple type parameters can be specified in a comma seperated list. see also xaml comments are closed. community content (no approved comments so far) click to expand comments are closed. read older posts --> most common topics android assembler building c# design foundations gestures google house iphone life masm mobile nexus one nexus one polish renovation short stories site software touch ui visual studio vs2010 web wpf writing xaml design and content © copyright duncan kimpton 2010

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