I have appreciated a lot of what Martin Fowler has to say about development over the years.
He will be in San Francisco on May 11-12 for a couple of free forms. The 11th is Tuesday in Santa Clara and the 12th in in San Francisco. Both are free.
Unfortunately the 12th is a Community builders night [...]
I think the title of this article says it all.
UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
Michael Feathers, the author, is very solid.
It’s a very familiar ‘rabbit hole’ in the industry. … Personally, I think that in this day and age selling them [UI testing tools] is irresponsible. Developing them open-source? Well, let your [...]
The bad news is that project management requires tradeoffs. Nobody particularly wants to admit to this, and people occasionally go through all kinds of contortions to avoid admitting this. But the fact of the matter is that the world we occupy is subject to real limitations.
Why, in our ultra-connected, digitally-enabled, virtual-reality-loving world, is it that London and New York are still centers of finance, Silicon Valley is still the high-tech hotbed, and San Francisco is ground zero for new media and the Web?
A recent article in the New York Times (Location, Location – It Still Pays to Be Near – [...]
This article summarizes research that a group did into Web application design practices. Web application design teams that have a shared understanding of a project’s context and objectives produce better results.
We did not find any correlation with user satisfaction and those teams with the most specialized team members, one way or the other: some teams [...]
Quick: guess the failure rate, and name the top factors named as the cause of it.
I was trying to find out about failure rates on software projects. There have been lots of stats on big IT initiatives, but not on pure web. Here’s a blog from 2008 that summarizes a web-focused study.
Given this info, which [...]
This blog has been very interesting. I have definitely not read all of the posts, and some of the flash cards are more appropriate to our workplace than others, but in general if you have some spare time, this is a good set of things to read about.
I’m providing a link to [...]
For clients that are using our WebTrack tool to file and keep track of support and maintenance requests, there is now an easy way to reference another item within Webtrack. To do it, enter this into the text box:
[Task:####]
where #### is the number of the task you want to link to. A link will automatically [...]
Robert Martin has written another article. There is a lot of truth in what he’s said in it. I like how he cuts through to reality.
Big Redesign in the Sky
I am about to dig into FlexScheduler again to add some features. I’ve written a few other Flex apps since then and I’d [...]
After reading about the coming explosion of e-readers (granted it’s been a long time coming) here: ebooks taking hold, I started wondering how publishers actually prepare their content for the readers.
I suppose Amazon and the like will bend over backwards to cut deals with the big names and do the conversion for them, but can [...]
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