- 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 )
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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 )
Links: 8-17-2008
- Memeticians
My new favorite blog.
(categories: blogs infoviz random ) - Graphicacy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Graphicacy is concerned with the capacities people require in order to interpret and generate information in the form of graphics
(categories: word language graph graphing visualization infoviz )
Links: 8-9-2008
- Bill de hÓra: Non-Newtonian Reading
Bill’s wrapup of the xmpp pubsub discussions that came out of the OSCON presentation.
(categories: rss xmpp pubsub messaging ) - joshua’s blog: beyond rest
Interesting discussion about xmpp / pubsub vs. http callbacks.
(categories: xmpp webservices syndication scaling rss rest webhooks ) - Aza’s Thoughts » What If… It Was Easy To Write Firefox Extensions
Quote (from the comments): I think a low tolerance for pain is critical when designing systems for other people.
(categories: extensions ui programming plugins ux )
Links: 8-5-2008
- WordPress › Matt’s Community Tags « WordPress Plugins
Quote: … allow a moderated community to assist in tagging primarily photographic content, image attachments and such
(categories: wordpress tagging moderation plugins tags )
Links: 7-28-2008
- Why Innovation Is Overrated – Scott Berkun
Making good things people love is the true spine of these companies (Google, Pixar,Apple) successes, and it’s a stronger framework (than being first or being more innovative) for managers to use when trying to learn from their examples.
(categories: innovation quality business ) - Do You Experiment at Work? – Scott Berkun
An easy measure of innovation at work is this: how common are experiments? How many people feel comfortable trying to do new things, and how easy is it to get support from managers to do them?
(categories: experimentation innovation risk startups business ) - scottberkun.com » The irony of creative change
Ford got the idea for assembly line cars by watching his butcher take cows apart. Anti-virus software uses the language, and tactics, of biology, not computer science. Leonardo da Vinci got most of his engineering ideas from watching birds and rivers
(categories: creativity innovation business change )