Steve Jobs on customer experience (WWDC 97)

(the quote starts from 1:55)

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're gonna try to sell it.
...
It started with "What incredible benefits can we give the customer? Where can we take the customer"? Not starting with "Let's sit down with the engineers and figure out what awesome technology we have and how are we gonna market that?" And I think that's the right path to take.

Note to self when using java regex - always call Matcher.matches() so that text matching actually happens

The general pattern of usage is:

1. regexString = [REGEX]

2. final Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regexString);

3. final Matcher matcher = p.matcher(text_to_match);

4. matcher.matches() 

DO NOT FORGET to call Matcher.matches().

Otherwise you will get messages like:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No match found
at java.util.regex.Matcher.group(Matcher.java:468)

and you'll be wondering why because you have confirmed that the regex itself is correct. (http://www.fileformat.info/tool/regex.htm and http://rubular.com/ are useful tools for doing this quickly)

REMEMBER: call .matches() so that our Matcher actually performs the matching!

Just wasted 10 minutes wondering what I was doing wrong.

Readings to check out: Knockout.js, HTML5 data attributes, YepNope, H5F

* Knockout.js - Simplify dynamic JavaScript UIs by applying the
Model-View-View Model (MVVM)

http://knockoutjs.com/

http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2010/07/05/introducing-knockout-a-ui-library-for-javascript/

http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/template-binding.html

http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2010/07/12/editing-a-variable-length-list-knockout-style/

http://www.knockmeout.net/2011/03/using-external-jquery-template-files.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6892067/spring-mvc-html-question

* HTML5 data attributes

http://html5doctor.com/html5-custom-data-attributes/

http://ajaxian.com/archives/embed-your-data-in-html-5

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/elements.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-attributes

* YepNope - yepnope is an asynchronous conditional resource loader
that's super-fast, and allows you to load only the scripts that your
users need. "yepnope.js is integrated into Modernizr."

http://yepnopejs.com/

http://www.sitepoint.com/regressive-enhancement-with-modernizr-and-yepnope/

* H5F - JavaScript library that allows you to use the HTML5 Forms
chapters new field input types, attributes and constraint validation
API in non-supporting browsers.

https://github.com/ryanseddon/H5F