An OK article. But if you have seen most good usability and UI design texts, they cite actual applications. You have your own, prototype, "hopefully not your application" dialog boxes as examples. If you can't find real-world examples of the problems you're fixing, maybe they're not that big of a deal? (which they ARE, you just haven't been researching this long enough, I am guessing.)
I clicked on the link hoping to find technical information on automatic software updating, like:
It's not that I didn't have anything in mind (I did, and, in earlier drafts, used some), it's that I felt this got the point across faster and simpler. Using the examples I gave and real-life screenshots felt too much like flamebait for my taste. I definitely see your point though.
I clicked on the link hoping to find technical information on automatic software updating, like:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/update-popl-2005.pdf
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/old/hicks01dynamic.html