- Focus on Things Under Your Control
Quote: Fear and anxiety comes from lots of places, including fatigue, misinformation, and the endless blathering on of talking heads on the television. If you start feeling your anxiety level increase because of things you have no ability to influence, step back and reconsider how you are spending your time. Go for walk around the block and enjoy a nice October afternoon. Take your best friend out to lunch at a restaurant you’ve never been too. Get a good night’s sleep. Take a deep breath and – as my dad once told me, focus on things under your control.
(categories: focus life ) - Website Optimizer
Google now offers A/B and multivariate testing. Nice.
(categories: a/b testing experiments experimentation )
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Links: 9-29-2008
- tap tap tap ~ The design session
… start with a fairly vague idea of the UI, refine both the way the app functions and the way it looks in one big step, then implement it all in code. Also: skitch
(categories: ux ui remote programming design workflow ) - Product and marketing in the start-up « azeem.azhar
Quote: Product management is the process of bringing a market-driven focus to companies to ensure they build products customers want to use (and buy). Product management is also about helping the company *make choices* (emphasis mine).
(categories: productmanagement marketing business startup ) - Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Engineers Do It Offline
Flickr, queuing, activity.
(categories: scaling scalability queueing flickr php )
Links: 9-28-2008
- Present.ly – The Constant Awareness Communication Tool
Another enterprise twitter clone, this one supposedly better than yammer (and you can actually pay for it!)
(categories: twitter enterprise yammer presently ) - SlideRocket isn’t yet PowerPoint’s undoing. But it might be | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
Pretty amazing web-based PowerPoint alternative.
(categories: sliderocket presentation software web2.0 ) - twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter – post RSS to twitter automatically
Does the opposite of the ‘feed your blog’ plugin I wrote for Clearspace: instead of posting to your blog, this takes your blog posts and feeds them to twitter.
(categories: twitter syndication twitterfeed ) - The looming crisis: Personal syndication overload | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
Skip the whole personal syndication overload thing: republishing is an interesting field, twitterfeed in particular.
(categories: republishing publishing syndication ) - Is ShareThis the next Digg? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
Description: a handy little widget that site managers can install to make it easier for readers to share and save Web pages
(categories: sharethis social bookmarks sharing ) - Stop Rationalizing and Make Hard Decisions: Learning from Dr. King – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Great quotes from Dr. King.
(categories: quotes life )
Links: 9-26-2008
- The class of 2012 is super wired
Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines. 14 out of 438 have a desktop computer.
(categories: wired education facebook social socialnetworks iphone )
Links: 9-25-2008
- happy – Google Code
Happy is a framework for writing map-reduce programs for Hadoop using Jython. It files off the sharp edges on Hadoop and makes writing map-reduce programs a breeze.
(categories: mapreduce java jython python scalability )
Links: 9-9-2008
- Yammer
Twitter for corporations.
(categories: twitter work enterprise status )
Links: 9-7-2008
- Apple Developer Connection – Bug Reporting
Extremely thorough guide to reporting bugs on Apple products.
(categories: testing support software troubleshooting bugs ) - Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – The 3 Laws of Platform Adoption: Why Developers Choose Platforms and What it Means to You
Quote: There are three main benefits adoption of one platform over another can offer a developer. These benefits are captured in the following "laws" of platform adoption: 1) Developers adopt a platform when it offers differentiation from competitors, 2) Developers adopt a platform when it reduces the cost of software development, 3) Developers adopt a platform when it provides reach and/or better distribution
(categories: community platform developer )
Links: 8-25-2008
- The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking
Maybe continuous partial attention isn’t as good for us as we … wait! There’s something shiny!
(categories: attentionstream attention productivity gtd psychology ) - Rail Spikes: Testing is overrated
Quote: …the truth is, no single technique is effective at detecting all defects. We need manual testing, peer reviews, usability testing and developer testing (and that’s just the start) if we want to produce high-quality software.Great article BTW.
(categories: usability software testing quality ) - Managing Product Development » Is Your Product Development Half-Actions?
All of you who are separating your developers from your testers? You are doing half-actions. Separating the writers from the developers and testers? Half actions there, too. Even when you define architecture and implement across the architecture, instead of by feature, that’s a half-action. A half-action means you have technical debt and will have to get back to that area of the product.Silos encourage half-actions (or third-actions or sixth-actions). Defining the architecture and implementing across it encourages half-actions. Create a cross-functional product development team. Have them finish one feature at a time. That’s a full action.
(categories: process productmanagement development design )
Links: 8-24-2008
- Coding Horror: Quantity Always Trumps Quality
Quote: Rather than agonizing over whether you’re building the right thing, just build it. And if that one doesn’t work, keep building until you get one that does.
(categories: software quality programming )
Links: 8-23-2008
- Hypertext Bazaar – 08.23.08 & 08.24.08 – Memeticians
Awesome list of Radiohead videos.
(categories: radiohead music videos )