You're right - your knowledge of your own requirements and the way you work makes if a good tool. That knowledge is the equivalent of the problem analysis/design work.
I guess the word "hobbyist' is what is annoying folks here. I never think of that as a pejorative term, after all Jobs and Wozniak were part of a hobbyist club and look what happened to them! Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD <pmb...@gmail.com>wrote: > Maybe I'm biased, but I think that the most user-friendly apps are those > produced by the people who use them. I'm not a dispassionate observer, > though -- my own practice management stack is miles ahead of anything else > I've seen but then I designed it for just the way I think and work, and I've > had years to tweak it and streamline it. But then, that's what makes it > really usable. > > -- Peter (another "hobbyist") > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > > On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Pete wrote: > > > You can take the word hobbyist as you please, it wasn't meant as a > demeaning > > term. And yes, there is crappy stuff produced by people who are "real" > > programmers (whatever that means). And yes, both groups of people > probably > > never had a course in UI design or DB design - that's the whole point. > > Writing the program is the final stage of a the process and without the > > understanding of the things you mentioned, the result will likely not be > > good, whether it's written by someone who is paid good money to be a > > programmer or by someone who does it for fun. > > Pete > > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Judy Perry <jper...@ecs.fullerton.edu > >wrote: > > > >> Perhaps you'd care to offer an example or three of "hobbyist" (notice > that > >> it is ALWAYS used in a demeaning manner) software done in LC that looks > or > >> behaves any crappier than stuff produced by "real" programmers in *any* > >> language who've obviously never had a course in UI or UX design? > >> > >> Judy > >> "the lowly dumb hobbyist" > >> > >> On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Pete wrote: > >> <snip> > >> > >> Just like recording software, using a programming language without the > >>> required knowledge produces pretty lousy results. > >>> > >> > >> ______________________________**_________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode< > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode