durzagott

While I appreciate the author has tried to take a good stab at the whole big-picture-design problem, this to me looks like a Scrum-but.

"We do Scrum, but... every so often we stop doing Scrum and get our design hats on"

Perhaps I've been fortunate in the projects I've worked on so far, but we always managed to get the UX designs done one sprint in advance. Sure, things need to be reworked as new discoveries are made. But isn't that the whole idea of iterative development?

Sorry, I didn't mean to link to the login screen. You can actually enter anything you like into the username/password fields.

I agree that the elements I complained about above are still present in this template, but I find it less garish than most of the other that I have seen and it isn't as slow as the one posted in the main link.

I been through (what feels like) hundreds of these admin templates recently and the one I linked too was the one that I settled for in the end. You can see a plethora of these types of templates on Themeforest's site: http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templat...

EDIT: I just realised that someone else posted the Themeforest link in the comments here. Apologies for the duplicate.

Forgive me for criticising, but I'm not all that enamoured with the design. I find it too chunky, too slow, and somewhat adolescent.

I appreciate that the designer has put a huge amount of effort into the template, and has populated it with some excellent demo data, but I would never use this theme in a business application.

I prefer a cleaner, more subtle design (some might say a tad boring?). Here is an example of what I mean: http://envato.stammtec.de/themeforest/peach/login.html

Thanks, I'll look into it. Although, am I right in assuming that you don't offer a Linux desktop client?

I love Dropbox and use it on all my devices. However, I really wish they would implement permissions on shared folders. It's one of the two most requested features that users want, but they still won't implement it [https://www.dropbox.com/votebox].

As soon as someone comes along that has integrates as seamlessly on my Windows PC, Linux PC and Android phone AND offers permissions on shared folders I will jump ship.

I don't know why, but it actually makes me cross that they aren't listening to their user-base.

Your is more usable, I can scroll with my mouse wheel, but I cannot click on the scroll bar's empty area and "jump" down a section.

"I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system [than Subversion], but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching."

The author instantly lost any credibility with me after this line.

At the company I work for we are currently in the process of migrating from MSSQL to PostgreSQL. However, we are trickling to a full stack switch to Linux. In the meantime, the Postgres databases have performed extremely well and on balance we are happy with it.

Unfortunately I would argue that at an enterprise level MSSQL is better than Postgres (pure conjecture here). If nothing else, it is way easier to employ MSSQL experts where I live and next to impossible to find Postgres talent. This pretty much means that we are learning by trial and error what the best practices are.

The "search as you type" feature is frustrating and, frankly, rubbish.

I really like the layout and presentation of this site. The information is easy to read and very clear.