- 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 )
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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 )
Links: 7-26-2008
- Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
OSCON presentation on building high volume syndication services using xmpp.
(categories: xmpp rest scaling architecture presentation messaging feeds flickr ) - Six Apart – Blog – Facebook Connects with Movable Type
Details on the facebook / moveable type integration.
(categories: movabletype sixapart facebook blogging )
Links: 7-23-2008
- David Gallo shows underwater astonishments | Video on TED.com
Skip ahead to the ocotpus at the end. It’ll floor you.
(categories: nature science ted underwater octopus ) - adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » Conversation with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar – Part 1
Quote: "… an important lesson for a UX Designer to understand: paper prototypes and ethnographic research are great, but if you’re trying to build a prototype that you want use as a blueprint, it should exist in the same medium as the final product."
(categories: creativity design experience pixar process prototyping sketching agile ) - opends: Home
Really nice LDAP server for testing. Auto-creates 10,000 accounts for you upon install.
(categories: authentication sun opends ldap java directory ) - Benford’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quote: "… the first digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger numbers occur as the leading digit with less and less frequency as they grow in magnitude, to the point that 9 is the first digit less than one time in twenty"
(categories: forensics benford auditing fraud statistics probability ) - WordPress for iPhone
Sweet native iPhone app for blogging on wordpress.com or on your own wordpress instance.
(categories: iphone blogging wordpress opensource mobile )
Links: 7-22-2008
- Anil Dash: Lists and Being On Them
Quote: "… promoting unsung or less-known members of a community can be a useful method of indicating a desire for a community’s values to evolve."
(categories: community-management community status )