Hi,

a friend of mine runs a small restaurant and wants to professionalize his IT.
Our idea was to store everything in subversion (we use Debian with svn 1.3).
We had absolutely no problems with the 2D objects, converting recipes to ASCII
and storing them was peanuts. However the 3D objects are giving us a headache
- the forks and knifes are stuck in the keyboard, we even destroyed a floppy
drive trying to read an apple.

Any ideas how we can still use SVN to store everything?

Konrad Rosenbaum on the Subversion Users' mailing list
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-04/0008.shtml
1 April 2006

    -- Konrad Rosenbaum
    -- Post to svn-users on 1 April 2006 ( http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-04/0008.shtml )

To make people happy, you have to let them feel like they are in control of
their environment. To do this, you need to correctly interpret their actions.
The interface needs to behave in the way they are expecting it to behave.

Thus, the cardinal axiom of all user interface design:

<<< A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the
user thought it would. >>>

As Hillel said, everything else is commentary. All the other rules of good UI
design are just corollaries.

    -- Joel Spolsky
    -- "User Interface Design for Programmers - Chapter 1" ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html )