Recreating Silverback’s Parallax

Paul Annett of Clearleft has a tutorial post on Vitamin today stepping the reader through a recreation of the parallax CSS design trick from Silverbackapp.com. Parallax scrolling for a website involves overlaying png images to give the page a 3D look.

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Reality Driven Development

Gustavo Duarte writes today about Reality Driven Development. This is meant to be a further explanation of a post of his that got Slashdotted last week. It’s a good read that advocates experimenting during the software process and getting feedback (from reality/the user) often.

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Do NOT Listen to Your Users

Jeff Atwood has an interesting article this morning on Coding Horror regarding what kind of user feedback is useful. He isn’t saying to ignore the user all together, but rather use their feedback in conjunction with hard data collected by watching what the user is doing when using the application.

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