Love the simplicity of this screen on http://www.dailymile.com.

I was very impressed by this unique CAPTCHA used for registration at www.xero.com.

I’ve blogged about text based GUI mockups before. I think they’re useful.

A few years ago I developed an Enterprise Architect CASE tool plugin for Wells Fargo bank. It allowed them to combine UML Activity Diagrams with the GUI prototyping diagrams, and then generate interactive HTML that users could explore. It was fun.

I recently wrote a few posts about generating graphs with SQL.

Today I found a cool feature in NUnit 2.5 Alpha 2 that I’ve been REALLY wanting. Basically, I wanted to be able to run tests multiple times, but with different data each time. This is now possible using the DataSource attribute.

I’m at it again. I can’t help myself. Ever since my first job working as a lowly student Oracle SQL monkey for engage Mutual Assurance, I’ve wanted to build better SQL tools.

I recently blogged about a technique for generating charts in your raw SQL. It occurred to me that these are a little bit like SparkLines. So, I’m calling them SQL Sparklines for now!

I was writing a quick query the other day that showed how many people registered on a site over time. I thought that it would be nice to have a graph-like representation of this, so I didn’t actually have to read the numbers.

I loved this summary of the iPhone GUI, by Edward Tufte

“The design ideas here include high-resolution touch-screens; minimizing computer admin debris; spatial distribution of information rather than temporal stacking; complete integration of text, images, and live video; a flat non-hierarchical interface; and replacing spacious icons with tight words. The metaphor for the interface is the information. Thus the iPhone got it mostly right.”