On Super (continuation)
I would be very delightful if somebody can publish their superannuation account web interface. I am wondering if any super fund in Australia provides customers with end of day data graphs on their super account performance with ability to distinguish between their fees, contributions and investment performance as well as compare with major market indexes in Australia and world.
Please blur all numbers - just show how interfaces look like.
I will post my ING if there is an interest.
I saw Colonial and ING systems so far - both suck in terms of tracking how much money they charge and how good their funds perform.
You can not see anything and need to spend lots of time and other software or involve a financial adviser which isn't free but also may be useless.
I always dreamed of designing a super web interface for superannuation - to let people to make choices time to time while even staying with the same super fund.
The only thing you need - to be able to put money more aggressively during bull market and into leaders and pull them back to conservative options when bull market is about to finish (like now) and have a tools to see impact - for how much you will sell and buy while switching as well as prices and fees involved.
What about 'You-Know-Who' ?
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[center][color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 IE7 Organize Favorites interface[/center]
In my working career I had an unfortunate experience of moving a PHP application from Apache on Unix to IIS on Windows.
If you used to do it too it will very much remind you an interface where you have to remove all 35 or so extensions loaded by default into IIS one by one to load only one to handle PHP.
Another phenomena was discovered when I created /tmp folder which is translated to Windows language as C:\tmp.
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[center][color=“#483D8B”]Fig 2 Self spreadable[/color][/center]
I found that somebody is trying to hijack it (some process uses MY folder).
It is filled all the time with 0 size .tmp files by 'You-Know-Who' 
Swiss bank vault password requirements - CISCO innovation initiative by BrightIdea
[quote]Collaborate with other entrepreneurs globally, pitch your big idea, and win the opportunity of a lifetime!
[right]CISCO I-Prize project[/right][/quote]
HISTORY
I have been inspired by CISCO I-Prize project application.
I looked at it, even used it as I have a developer account with them.
Started looking around as SalesForce product available only for SalesForce customers (read CRM).
What if you want to collaborate on feedback and features and involve employees and customers but do not need CRM or want to run it in house?
I found that there is not only another vendor who offers separate product - CISCO I-Prize project but market called Innovation Management.
Found that CISCO uses this product for CISCO I-Prize project.
OUTCOME
I decided to register to look at BrightIdea product on CISCO site and faced password requirements (shown below).
CISCO invites innovative people to contribute and offer them such 'innovative' password requirements.
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[center][color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 Innovation in password requirements on web[/center]
It is so complicated that their own developers left copy/paste error in a password hint - look bullets 3 and 4 both having 'Must contain at least one numeric' being in fact different requirements.
Another interesting fact - BrighIdea being an Innovation Management vendor does not offer demo and do not collect ideas on their product on own web site with their own product.
Imagine yourself running squiz.net on something else than Matrix.
They might have it for prospects and customers somewhere inside though.
If they would run it publicly somebody could suggest them a long time ago to ease password requirements or at least make them flexible.
SalesForce is more open on this to me - they offer it as a part of their product and they use it to manage their own product.
CONCLUSION
- vendor which does not use own product looks suspicious
- registration should really be - email, password (typed twice) and CAPTCHA (or simple security question) plus email confirmation to activate
- password requirements should be flexible to suit both - public initiative and defense agency intranet
BTW Good CISCO I-Prize project on registration pages
Theoretical question - corporate world logic
My customer was bought (acquired) by big international organization.
I have been asked how much time/money theoretically I will require to rewrite my system (350K lines of HTML, JavaScript and PHP) in .Net
$6000 !!!
Our answer on corporate hypothetical question
Writing it as somebody professionally involved in estimations might be interested.
We hypothetically assumed:
- no changes and just language to language translation (which is dummy when there is an opportunity to evolve)
- core team knows system very well (no time needed to figure out how it all works)
Estimations:
2 developers 13-14 months
4 developers 7 months
6 developers 5 months
This will lead to about 5000-5200 man/hours with any of options above.
I will not put more than 6 people as communication/management will eat lots of time.
Or charge for the 5200 man hours and compile you php app for the .net framework. 5200 man hours is really quite cheap by aleks’ estimate.
I think their call not to be able to avoid loading a PHP extension into IIS but have code base re-written in ASP or C# to let .Net developers to support it in future.
I am speculating here as I can not see any other reason to rewrite application of this size as to be able to support/develop it further on the same platform which is .Net.
Estimating money after hours estimation is always tempting - you put a rate, multiple and dream what you can afford to buy 
If I could hire Aleks with his estimate I would afford to dream a bit longer and a bit further for sure
Do Front End Web Developers have nightmares?
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[center][color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 If they do - it could be one of them[/center]
Power of 'space'
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'Armies' of buttons. Do YOU like them?
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This charger woke up a desire to throw it to its designer
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[center][color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 Sony Ericsson mobile charger requires two empty sockets around to be plugged[/center]
Smart UI designers will smile and make conclusions based on similarities.
Be Obsessive About Details
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Be Obsessive About Details - II
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[center][color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 Unexpected TautologyForce[/center]
Web developers are unique
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[color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 Web developer
[color=“#483D8B”]Fig 2 Not a Web developer (hopefully)[/color][/center]
Give my corollary a test 
BTW I have no relationship with above mentioned service.
Making a difference - exersize
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[center][color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 Find The Difference[/center]
Morning Mortgage Meditation
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[center][color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 Creative approach - sorting 'years'[/center]
Another greate example of very wrong application of technology.
We became customers in 2001 and smart system will not even display years less than 2001 in a drop down, showing smart souls behinds that peace of code.
From Front End Developer Portfolio
I was looking via LinkedIn for people calling themselves FED's - Front End Developers.
They are supposed to be very good at interface design.
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I absolutely love them … or Have you ever repaired 360 twice?
We all know how pleasant it is to call support - Optus, Telstra, your bank, internet service provider and … listen how your call is important to them.
I too prefer all other ways to get things done without support call.
Our Xbox 360 broke in January. I logged in, ordered tag, packed, sent, received - cool banana (except obviously a frustration that it was as usual well known problem for which 'you know who' extended warranty).
This month something else within failed. I emailed and get already known response …
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[color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 Email welcoming online processing
[img]http://boxstr.com/files/1105146_3vdmp/xbox_2.png[/img]
[color="#483D8B"]Fig 2 .. and found no place to create another request[/color]
[img]http://boxstr.com/files/1105147_pwyjj/xbox_3.png[/img]
[color="#483D8B"]Fig 3 Review your repair status shows closed in January request[/color]
[img]http://boxstr.com/files/1105148_owyes/xbox_4.png[/img]
[color="#483D8B"]Fig 4 View your warranty details[/color]
It is interesting how many days they hard coded to reset the system to be blank and accept a new request - 30 days? :)
I will call you tomorrow 'you know who's.
Three or SE?
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[color=“#483D8B”]Fig 1 Three
[color=“#483D8B”]Fig 2 Sony Ericsson[/color][/center]