Comments for Jacob Thomas

Comment on Why interfaces lie… by Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:00:55 +0000

@Jammy I may have sounded a bit polarized in this conversation trying to accuse the programmer of some necessary responsibilities. What I was trying to convey was the importance to secure the data passed through interfaces, especially form submissions. Let me elaborate further with the google example. The organization at large may have decided upon a 10 results per page as the bare minimum. This lower bound may be prepared by the business analyst or any information architect. However, It comes to the developer to identify these basic requisites for information handling such validation, normalization and type-checking. Even if the solution rests with this so-called analyst, many organizations have failed to identify this at a lower level. At this level, a common goal would be broken down into individual responsibilities. Somewhere here, the procedures have to be polished to prevent such problem. I have used a designer/developer perspective to elucidate this problem. We all know companies like Google have a more complex team structure.

Comment on Why interfaces lie… by Jammy

Jammy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:20:33 +0000

Dear sir, I strongly feel that what you have identified is not the work for a designer. Neither is it the work for a developer. It is the work for a certain fabled beast known as a business analyst.

Or if such a creature is not available to watch for and communicate these issues for said designer and developer to remedy then the more technical of those two (whoever understands a sentence such as “SQL injection through input forms and Header injections to manipulate cookie information and authenticate websites are prevented to some levels now.” – surely the developer?) should aid the less technical one to allow them both to reach a common goal of not allowing one google result, a 5 rupee charge or other more nefarious activities to occur.

Basically I am saying that you are not saying interfaces lie, nor backends lie but both can combine to let business logic lie. And who is responsible for the business logic? If it’s your designer it might look awesome but you should reconsider your team structure.

Strongly I tell you.

Comment on Color Cross by admin

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:05:55 +0000

Thanks. Just share what you come up with.

Comment on Color Cross by Mr WordPres$uccess

Mr WordPres$uccess — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:26:50 +0000

Very nice result. When I have time, I’m going to have to play around with this stuff. It could be because I’m sleepy but it almost looks like the boxes are moving.

Comment on What college taught me… by Afzal...

Afzal... — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:19:16 +0000

i hope u had learnt a bit more from the college…………….

Comment on What college taught me… by admin

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:17:26 +0000

No! I meant 5%. I know guys who write their stories, often in beautiful take-away-scripts model for movies. The only thing that is same is the front page and probably the first few lines of the original.

Comment on What college taught me… by Asti

Asti — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:52:08 +0000

You mean they’re reproduced with 95% accuracy. 5% error.
I’ve seen people draw un-needed figures and then cross them off as seen in the assignment.

Comment on Version V: “rize” by Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:55:48 +0000

Looking good Jacob!

Comment on Lafest- A designer’s tale by prasanth

prasanth — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:35:44 +0000

dude. where s KaAjA bEeDi in this post?

Comment on Streaming one’s life is the next thing. by Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:24:23 +0000

@Paul
The concept is really catching up and some of the clients want to have a stream rather than a log in their website. I was really amazed to think that they were really technically sound. and Yes! the name ‘Profilactic’ sounds a bit strange.