Back in 2014, I published this study together with a co-author. To make it more accessible, I have written the following summary highlighting the essential findings and implications of the study. In the paper, we presented an explorative study about how usability engineering is conducted and understood in practice. Our research question was: “How do […]
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G Suite DNSSEC signed MX records
G Suite now called Google Workspace, and formally known as Google Apps, is a collection of Google services including Gmail with custom domains, all available through a single user account. G Suite’s default MX records (aspmx.l.google.com, and alt<1-4>.aspmx.l.google.com) are not DNSSEC signed. For users wanting DNSSEC signed G Suite MX records, Google has made such […]
Recently my web hosting provider BuyShared (also known as BuyVM and Frantech) started using the SMTP provider MailChannels for outgoing e-mails. This is a neat feature that increases mail deliverability. Before switching to MailChannels, BuyShared routed outgoing mail through a local SMTP server. Due to more advanced and strict spam filters and policies by most […]
Namecheap is a US-based ICANN-accredited domain registrar that has been around for more than a decade. They started as a reseller of the registrar eNom and used eNom’s ICANN-accreditation. During 2018 all new and existing domain registrations are now under their own ICANN-accreditation. Over the years they have generally received positive reviews and are often recommended […]
Rebel.com is a Canadian based ICANN accredited domain registrar (registered in Barbados). Besides providing domain name registrations they also offer e-mail and web hosting. I have only used them as a domain registrar, and this review is only about the registrar services provided by Rebel.com. They are from time to time running some pretty good […]
Together with co-author Jan Stage we got a short paper accepted at the conference INTERACT 2017. Abstract The essence of usability evaluations is to produce feedback that supports the downstream utility so the interaction design can be improved and problems can be fixed. In practice, software development organizations experience several obstacles for conducting usability engineering. […]
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A few words about selling UX
A while ago I attended a seminar for practitioners about the differences and similarities between usability and UX and not least the problems of understanding, separating, and combining the two into something specific. During this seminar, a problem discussed among the practitioners was how to sell UX. There are a number of challenges when presenting […]
BunnyCDN (affiliate link) is a low-cost unmanaged content delivery network (CDN) service. Setting up the service and implementing the CDN into your website is an easy procedure, especially if you already understand the basics of a CDN. BunnyCDN is one of the cheapest available CDN providers charging $0.01/GB for US and European traffic, and $0.03/GB for Asian and Oceanian […]
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Madeira life
A few pictures from my life here at Funchal, Madeira.
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Going to Madeira
Sunday I will be leaving for Madeira for the remaining part of the year.