Articles tagged ‘software’
Use a money data type
Why your software should handle money amounts separately from other numbers • 2022-04-12
Use a currency-specific number of decimals
Why a money amount isn’t just a number • 2022-03-08
Populate country lists carefully
How to source a list of countries to use in software • 2022-02-01
Localise names with the CLDR
Using the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository’s standard translations • 2022-01-25
Internationalise data
Better software through commoditised domain modelling • 2022-01-18
Default to the browser’s preferred language
Don’t set the web page language based on location • 2022-01-11
Publish data using the CSVW standard
Use W3C’s ‘CSV on the Web’ (CSVW) standard to make data accessible • 2021-12-28
Create RFC 4180-compliant CSV files
How to solve the worst comma-separated values (CSV) problems • 2021-12-23
Pluralise text correctly
User-interface content design details matter too • 2021-10-12
What to put in a README
How to minimally document software • 2021-03-23
Allow varied national telephone number formats
Why telephone numbers don’t add up • 2021-02-23
Respect people’s full names
Don’t call someone’s name ‘invalid’ • 2021-02-16
Forgive user input in the wrong format
Don’t make people normalise data manually • 2021-02-02
Omit salutations in automated notifications
Don’t waste time on fake greetings • 2021-01-26
Build unisex software
Don’t ask people to tell you their gender • 2021-01-13
Implement a zero-bug policy
How to manage bugs during software product development • 2021-01-05
Validate email addresses to level 4
First person to say ‘regex’ loses • 2020-12-01
Allow all printable characters
First person to say ‘special characters’ loses • 2020-11-17
Use localised language names for language selection
Don’t use flags for languages • 2020-11-03
Sort every collection you display
Unsorted is never the right order • 2020-10-20
Numbers that aren’t numbers
‘Numbers’ that you can’t represent numerically • 2020-09-29
Software review: Shipright
A single source of truth for your customers’ product feedback • 2020-07-01
Software review: Delibr
Structured writing for feature documents • 2020-05-19
Software review: productboard (roadmaps)
Sharing product roadmaps in @productboard • 2020-04-07
Software review: productboard (insights board)
Capturing customer feedback in @productboard • 2020-03-31
Software review: productboard (features board)
Managing a product backlog in @productboard • 2020-03-25