Factory design pattern and usability- June 21, 2005 Luke Church watched the API usability presentation and contacted me with a question about a point I made regarding the factory design pattern and usability. One thing that I probably didnt make clear in the presentation is that the difficulties with the factory design pattern are greatest for opportunistic programmers (or programmers working in an opportunistic style). There are three reasons why these programmers have difficulties with the factory design pattern: These programmers like to...http://blogs.msdn.com/stevencl/archive/2005/06/21/431230.aspx We're hiring- June 9, 2005 We have several open positions in the Visual Studio user experience team. One of those positions is for somebody to work with me on the API usability efforts. We've got lots of exciting ideas about research projects that we'd like to work on to provide API teams at Microsoft with data about their customers that helps them create truly usable APIs. If you're passionate about understanding how developers work and if you love programming, learning about new APIs and playing with the latest...http://blogs.msdn.com/stevencl/archive/2005/06/08/427024.aspx |