Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 05:06:02 -0400 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors Message-ID: <CAOgwaMuh9iAQtoZ=xtm89XS9TmiHNNOBwCsxafeLrkZTR829uw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131006154515.01c14ded@X220.ovitrap.com> References: <CAF6rxgmZL7-kagQ=Sed_cPsgwCV4YxxWTErQ0UAFbh_DpRnZ=Q@mail.gmail.com> <201310031535.r93FZ6D1095088@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20131003153825.GB1581@oldfaithful.bebik.local> <5250BA2E.3030409@FreeBSD.org> <20131006102955.4191e4a4@X220.ovitrap.com> <CAF6rxgnBQ1QmAVxquQJbZJR8xT5dx1avedPJfNZRy2xHcY1yuA@mail.gmail.com> <20131006120117.183b20ce@X220.ovitrap.com> <5251094E.2030800@FreeBSD.org> <20131006154515.01c14ded@X220.ovitrap.com>
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On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com > wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:55:10 +0100 > Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > On 06/10/2013 05:01, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > this type is called 'design'. As an engineer I do the software > > > behind an website but I do not dare to make the design. Ok, I tell > > > the designer, when I think the design could be improved but I do > > > not dare th change it myself. > > > > The trick is to realise that site design is simply another form of > > engineering, albeint with rather different contexts and constraints > > than writing software. > > > > Writing a website so that the users can interact with it readily, find > > and understand what they wat, avoid frustration and have a pleasant > > overall experience is conceptually much the same sort of thing as > > writing a website so it doesn't hog server resources or continually > > fail ungracefully or have a badly indexed sub-optimal database schema. > > Basically you want it to do it's job efficiently and smoothly, whether > > 'it' is the back-end server code, or the on-screen presentation. > > > > Granted, optimizing sites for human interaction is a whole different > > skill set, but it's not some holy task that only some annointed > > designer with the mandate of heaven can undertake. > > yes, it is not rocket science but - as you said - a different skill set. > > Erich > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering The first sentence : *Software engineering* (*SE*) is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the design, development, operation, and maintenance of software <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software>, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering>to software.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering#cite_note-BoDu04-1>; Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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