Comments on: Software Engineering and the war of benefits

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:48:43 +0000

Noted Mike. I’ve been thinking about how I would do a redesign for my blog and readability is probably my main concern with that.

I really appreciate that you spoke up about this and I’ll make the links have better contrast for the short term and of course I’ll be optimizing readability once I get a couple weekends to do a full redesign.

In fact, I would like to give you early access to my new design and get your feedback if you don’t mind. Thanks.

By: Mike Green

Mike Green — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:42:14 +0000

This is really hard to read. Using deep red text for links against an almost black background is such poor contrast! Readability is vastly important if you wish people to pay attention to your content. Please reconsider your design.

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:35:42 +0000

Thanks Shanon. I agree that we have to be much more creative than many think.

As I mentioned on DZone, it seems that a lot of our benefits are geared toward our productivity. I think that shows that it’s our passion for programming that allows benefits like this to rule! Programming is not my job, it’s my life… and I know many of you readers would say the same!

By: Shanon

Shanon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:09:35 +0000

An interesting topic.

If I were to have a guess I would say that software developers are more creative than most people realise. We choose benefits over money because it provides us more opportunities to be creative.

By: Software Engineering and the war of benefits

Software Engineering and the war of benefits — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:03:59 +0000

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