The Bad Code Spotter’s Guide
InformIT: The Bad Code Spotter’s Guide > Poor Commenting In an age when applications have to be developed yesterday, bad coding is common – even more so in web applications, mainly due to forgiving nature of browsers and increase in number is budget level development environment (LAMP, Ruby on Rails …). Bad code is quick [...]
Usability Fundamentals
Luke Wroblewski – Parti and the Design Sandwich from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
Boycott Trend Micro
Boycott Trend Micro – www.ScriptumLibre.org Barracuda Networks uses ClamAV anti virus software in their solutions. Anti virus developer Trend Micro accused Barracuda Networks of patent infringement with a bogus patent (as all software patents are). What Trend Micro really does is abusing the patent system and aggressively attacking ClamAV users and developers directly. Whatever your [...]
The Internet as Imagined in 1969
This video dates back to 1969 and presents what could be described as an early idea of the Internet.
Crackheads & Street Charity Workers
Charity workers and crack heads are as annoying as each other. I lean more towards crackheads, as at least there is a degree of helplessness to their condition. What they share is enforced earnestness in their plights, and what they also share is inspiring a peaceful man like myself, to plunge my fist into their [...]
Test Manager Survival Guide
After 12 years in testing, and 27 companies, I feel that now I should be writing a testing book. And using the great tool Freemind to organise my thoughts. As my specialism became by default, more chaotic projects, my approach to the book has been as survival guide for test managers in variety of scenarios. [...]
Plurk
Twitter’s most comparable competitor Plurk has been languishing somewhat, though maybe harsh, as the positive is it has not become burdened down with gizmos, widgets, etc. There are a few services using the Plurk API to generate web services such as this one. Essentially a bookmarking tool, that uses shorted URL in posting. Not particularly [...]
