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Three cities, three countries in only
three months. This edition comes to you from Ireland where I have
started a new project with an eCommerce vendor.
For those of you who think that you
might like to try this globe trotting life, here are a few tips.
Negotiate a big baggage allowance
with the airlines. You will need to keep a lot of clothes. Even
then it will never be enough. Be prepared to spend up to 10 weeks
without favourite shoes, suits, ties, CDs, Books, Computers and
peripherals, sports equipment and all sorts other household items.
This becomes especially difficult when you try to setup house in
another foreign country whilst most of your belongings are on a
ship going somewhere else. Three sets of cutlery is a must have
for this kind of living.
Working in eCommerce and web site
design is certainly interesting. It has reminded me that we work
in an industry with no sense of history and it would appear that
each new generation of developers which appear with each new
generation of technology, have to go through the same learning
curve as their predecessors, making the same mistakes. This was
true of HTML which really ought to have been XML, first time
around, if only lessons from DTP had been learned. The same seems
to be true of eCommerce, with the industry busy re-inventing how
to do database transactions, session management, and stateful
transient data storage. More of this in a future IMHO.
So this edition is much later than
billed. Hopefully it is interesting enough to make it worth the
wait.
This month we see more evidence that
UIDesign.net gets better and better known. In addition to the usual
material, there is feedback from Murray Cantor on the review
of his book, back in January and some letters from other readers.
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