Comments on: Propeller.com and Rapid Application Development http://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/07/23/propellercom-and-rapid-application-development/ Programming, design, business and productivity content for tech entrepreneurs living in a 2.0 world. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Social Bookmarking Updates http://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/07/23/propellercom-and-rapid-application-development/#comment-2847 Social Bookmarking Updates Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:12:35 +0000 http://www.thinkingserious.com/?p=132#comment-2847 [...] of my social bookmarking friends posted this about the new propeller design and I definitely agree. Most of the redesign was about knocking the spam rate down by making it [...] [...] of my social bookmarking friends posted this about the new propeller design and I definitely agree. Most of the redesign was about knocking the spam rate down by making it [...]

]]> By: Chris Lang http://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/07/23/propellercom-and-rapid-application-development/#comment-2660 Chris Lang Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:41:06 +0000 http://www.thinkingserious.com/?p=132#comment-2660 Thingking Serious, Most of the redesign was about knocking the spam rate down by making it harder for users to follow another's submissions and simply mass vote. A number of options were removed so that #1: more advertising is loaded due to more page views and #2: users have to actually read the articles, not just prop their friends submissions with a click. But certainly, the design is rather 1999 clipartish. Design aesthetics mean nothing to me really, I would rather have a site that is coded efficiently and executes blazing fast than any thing else. As a programmer and in defense of the new design, it does run faster that the old code. Now that we seem to be past the basic Ooooppsss! type error screens, that is. I have never really seen a new code base rolled out and tested while we (the users) suffered thru a very low functionality period as the errors were found and fixed. Thingking Serious,

Most of the redesign was about knocking the spam rate down by making it harder for users to follow another’s submissions and simply mass vote.

A number of options were removed so that #1: more advertising is loaded due to more page views and #2: users have to actually read the articles, not just prop their friends submissions with a click.

But certainly, the design is rather 1999 clipartish. Design aesthetics mean nothing to me really, I would rather have a site that is coded efficiently and executes blazing fast than any thing else.

As a programmer and in defense of the new design, it does run faster that the old code. Now that we seem to be past the basic Ooooppsss! type error screens, that is.

I have never really seen a new code base rolled out and tested while we (the users) suffered thru a very low functionality period as the errors were found and fixed.

]]> By: andrew warner http://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/07/23/propellercom-and-rapid-application-development/#comment-2449 andrew warner Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:42:22 +0000 http://www.thinkingserious.com/?p=132#comment-2449 I think they could also use a leader who's passionate internally and vocal externally. I think they could also use a leader who’s passionate internally and vocal externally.

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