April 2005 Archives
Here's a follow-up Dilbert to this one.
Dilbert. For those of us working in support & marketing. :-)
Undeveloped thoughts of the week:
"UI development is like painting the faces of a thousand army men with a little brush. Enterprise server development is like painting a stadium with a roller in the dark."
Let me add that each soldier of the thousand army men is made out of different materials, requiring you to change your brush & color technology constantly. And some of them move while getting painted.
Exploratory Testing using Personas:
Lesson learned: Get the customer data when they are using the software in their own work environment.
Good read.
If podscope is real, then it's really, really cool. I'm impressed.
Trent Reznor is releasing a new single as a fully editable GarageBand file.
Most certainly not my kind of music. But what a bold move: Open-Source music.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
Usable Help: "Examining documentation and help systems for software and consumer products."
Great content plus a great blogroll on technical writing. Recommend for all folks dealing with technical documentation (you know who you are, don't you).
(via michael-mccracken.net).
Mike Clark on Code Craft: Tame the Name.
Recommended reading.
A Unit test should test only one thing - if you're doing TDD.
Rick Schaut digs up some of the cool MPW C Error messages.
You haven't lived if you never compiled a substantial MacApp-based application on a 8 MHZ 68000-based Mac using MPW. Upgrading to a 16MHZ 68030 machine helped, but you could still watch half a decent Wimbledon tennis match while the machine was building your app.
Those were the days.
Meyer's Law states:
When the same set of facts can be explained equally well by
A massive conspiracy coordinated without a single leak between hundreds or even thousands of people
-OR -
Sustained stupidity and incompetence
Assume stupidity and incompetence"
