[thelist] Jakob Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing]
Shashank Tripathi
sub at shanx.com
Sat Feb 23 03:06:00 CST 2002
Robert,
I regurgitate almost everything you have to say, except may be for one
clarification.
| and the clients for whom I work -- ....
| hold the Neilsens, Forresters and
^^^^^^^^
I wonder if you already know that this thread was about Jakob Nielsen
(the sadly-dated and much-ignored 'Usability Guru'), but the Nielsens
you seem to have mentioned are actually "A.C. Nielsen", which happens to
be a pretty credible marketing research agency with some pretty useful
research. I work at a setup like yours (Dentsu, in Tokyo) and I've often
found Nielsen's work incredibly useful.
I completely agree with your take on how easy it is to whitepaper one's
way into gurudom these days though..
<tip type="Database" subject="Multilingual error messages in MySQL">
Ok, this may be a no-brainer to some, but you can start a MySQL
database daemon with a given language to view error messages etc
in that language. Apparently, this also saves a bunch of other
headaches during development.
An example of how to do this:
mysqld --language=japanese
</tip>
Yoroshiku Onegai shimasu,
Shanx
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