era's Bookmarks About "quips"

YAML FAQ: Tabs

"Indeed Guido van Rossum of Python has acknowledged that allowing TABs in Python source is a headache for many people and that were he to design Python again, he would forbid them."

by era 2006-06-19 01:25 blog · erablog · programming · python · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.yaml.org/faq.html - cached - mail it - history

When Bad Design Becomes the Standard (Alertbox Nov. 1999)

Nielsen pulling percentages out of his hat again "If we were starting from scratch, we might improve the usability of a site by 1% or so by having a navigation rail on the right rather than on the left. But deviating from the standard would almost certainly impose a much bigger cost in terms of confusion and reduced ability to navigate smoothly."

by era 2006-06-19 01:25 article · blog · erablog · quips · usability · web · 20060619-0123

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991114.html - cached - mail it - history

PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption (Alertbox)

For once, Jakob Nielsen gets it spot-on "For online reading, however, PDF is the monster from the Black Lagoon." -- Jakob Nielsen

by era 2006-06-19 01:25 advocacy · blog · erablog · pdf · peeve · quips · usability · web · 20060619-0123

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html - cached - mail it - history

Jesse Ruderman Â» How to rig an election

If I worked for Diebold and wanted to help republicans win --- I would work harder on usability for machines going to friendly districts

by era 2006-06-19 01:25 blog · conspiracy · erablog · politics · quips · usability · 20060619-0123

http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/24/election/ - cached - mail it - history

To write a good game, think like a player

From an on-line Interactive Fiction magazine issue from 2001 ... Dunno how I stumbled over this "If you're writing a story-game, the code should automatically unlock and open doors you walk through if you have the key; it's just tedious if it doesn't. But if you're writing a puzzle game, then the code definitely shouldn't - if a player has had to work like fury to get that key then let them have the satisfaction of getting to unlock the damn door with it. Otherwise it plays like the game is tapping its watch saying 'I've grown grey hairs waiting for you to get on and solve that! Can we hurry up, please?'"

by era 2006-06-19 01:25 quips · usability · writing · 20060619-0123

http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/backissues/SPAG27 - cached - mail it - history

SimpleBits | Smart-Ups

Dan Cederholm invents a buzzword "While chatting with a friend about the recent influx of smarter web start-ups: âsmart-ups!â, I exclaimed, patting myself on the back, and thinking I was the bomb.com. Guess you had to be there." -- Dan Cederholm

by era 2006-06-19 01:25 blog · design · erablog · quips · web · zeitgeist · 20060619-0123

http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2005/11/30/smartups.html - cached - mail it - history

How to build a better browser - scottberkun.com

"The browser should use several easy to collect kinds of data to improve the user's ability to get value out of bookmarks."

by era 2006-06-19 01:25 03a · article · browser · design · firefox · gui · quips · ui · w3c · 20060619-0123

http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay37.htm - cached - mail it - history

Untitled Document

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." "Official management, on the other hand, claims to believe the probability of failure is a thousand times less. One reason for this may be an attempt to assure the government of NASA perfection and success in order to ensure the supply of funds. The other may be that they sincerely believed it to be true, demonstrating an almost incredible lack of communication between themselves and their working engineers."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 article · blog · erablog · quips · science · 20060619-0123

http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/feynman.html - cached - mail it - history

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

"After all, if the conventional wisdom was working, the rate of systems being compromised would be going down, wouldn't it?"

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · quips · security · 20060619-0123

http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/ - cached - mail it - history

Project Bait and Switch

Gay hate speech on conservative political web sites isn't "Peacefire created four pages, on free servers such as GeoCities, which consisted of anti-gay quotes copied from four different conservative Web sites: Dr. Laura, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. Using anonymous HotMail accounts, we then sent the URLs of the newly created pages to six blocking software companies, recommending that they block the newly created pages as "hate speech". After the companies had agreed to block the sites we created, we told them that all the quotes on those pages had been taken from the four conservative Web sites, and recommended that they block those Web sites as well. The blocking companies did not block those Web sites and did not respond to our inquiries."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 censorship · politics · quips · society · www · 20060619-0123

http://www.peacefire.org/BaitAndSwitch/ - cached - mail it - history

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator

A program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. 'SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to "fake" conferences; that is, conferences with no quality standards, which exist only to make money. In fact, one of our papers was accepted to SCI 2005!' They're asking for donations so that they could actually go and, er, perform at the conference.

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 ai · computing · humor · language.generation · quips · satire · science · 20060619-0123

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ - cached - mail it - history

O'Reilly: What happened to BountyQuest?

On prior art and the demise of O'Reilly's "anti-patent company" "As it is, patent filings are much more like the 'obfuscated C contest' than they are like anything that improves the world's ability to learn from inventions in exchange for that limited monopoly granted by the patent office." --Tim O'Reilly

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 advocacy · blog · erablog · patent · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2003/bountyquest_1003.html - cached - mail it - history

OK/Cancel: On Unix Command Lines and Pianos

On how the command line is to a Unix weenie like the keyboard to a pianist "I call this class of interface 'mastery interfaces', and they are curious because they are amazingly unusable to beginners and effortlessly usable to 'experts'. This characteristic creates something of an odd social dynamic amongst the userbase. The experts can barely (if at all) re-acquaint themselves with the frustrations that newbies face, and thus have very few (and skewed) insights on how to make the system more broadly usable."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · cli · erablog · quips · shell · ui · unix · usability · 20060619-0123

http://www.ok-cancel.com/archives/article/2004/07/on-unix-command-lines-and-pianos.html - cached - mail it - history

Hacking in Iraq

Guy in Iraq giving out Ubuntu and Knoppix CDs (and doing lots more interesting things) "The main reason for giving away Ubuntu and Knoppix is this: People are using windows because it's what they have. They'll get to know what they have and they'll never change. If you get in on the ground floor, you can help subvert the western dominant paradigm before it's taken hold here. It helps people to recover data, it helps people to remove viruses and if they're willing to run Knoppix, Debian Gnu/Linux or Ubuntu, they're likely to not have virus problems ever again."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 advocacy · erablog · knoppix · opensource · quips · society · ubuntu · 20060619-0123

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/04/hacking_in_iraq.html - cached - mail it - history

Slashdot vs. Google Answers vs Usenet vs Lazyweb

(Click on the link, it's too long to paste here)

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · humor · jwz · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/509195.html?thread=7491339 - cached - mail it - history

It's complicated - A pharmacy in Arbil, Iraq

"Thanks Iran, you've given me cheaper medicine than my own country ever has."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 erablog · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ioerror/188468.html - cached - mail it - history

LinuxDevCenter.com: Trust and Zeal in Open Source Advocacy

"Normal people don't like evangelists." "If one point is critical to drill in, it is that people who are unfamiliar with open source generally don't like evangelists--at all. This is particularly true for managers who may take the same disdain to evangelists that they take to salespeople and marketers."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 advocacy · erablog · opensource · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/21/advocacy.html - cached - mail it - history

JWZ on AOL (... today's jwz quote)

"Corporations are not evil. That kind of anthropomorphism is inappropriate. Corporations are too stupid to be evil, only people can be that. Corporations are mechanisms."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · quips · society · 20060619-0123

http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/aol.html - cached - mail it - history

jwz on Linux Solutions (tm)

"I've been saturated with Unix-peanut-gallery effluvia for so long that it no longer even surprises me when every question -- no matter how simple -- results in someone suggesting that you either A) patch your kernel or B) change distros. It's inevitable and inescapable, like Hitler."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 erablog · linux · quips · usability · 20060619-0123

http://www.jwz.org/doc/linuxvideo.html - cached - mail it - history

The CADT Model

jwz on closing "obsolete" bugs "This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version. I'm so totally impressed at this Way New Development Paradigm. Let's call it the 'Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers' model, or 'CADT' for short. It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 erablog · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html - cached - mail it - history

Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Revolution 9"

"'Therefore, it doesn't fit in on a Beatles' album, you say. 'Within You Without You' tested your patience but this one is just more than you can stand."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · history · music · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/r9.html - cached - mail it - history

Symantec Issues | K-Squared Ramblings

"Depending on how security-conscious you are, [Symantec] are either making their [email] messages look suspicious or training users to ignore warning signs."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · quips · security · spam · 20060619-0123

http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2006/02/13/symantec-issues/ - cached - mail it - history

Linux IRC mini-HOWTO

Slightly old, but good overview with forward pointers "If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport." -- Unknown, quoted in Linux IRC mini-howto

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 howto · irc · linux · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/IRC.html - cached - mail it - history

Doom for System Administration

"I will not assume any liability for damage caused from running this code. Especially if you are running it as root. In fact, we both know that this will cause damage to the system, and that's why you want to try it. You have been warned."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 erablog · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/after.html - cached - mail it - history

CrackMonkey Frequently Asked Questions

> UPDATE: OUR PLAN HAS FAILED STOP JOHN DENVER IS NOT TRULY DEAD STOP HE LIVES ON IN HIS MUSIC STOP PLEASE ADVISE FULL STOP

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 humor · linux · opensource · quips · satire · 20060619-0123

http://www.crackmonkey.org/faq.html - cached - mail it - history

Ricardo Semler: Set Them Free

You would find that the more Microsoft hired the best minds at the highest salaries, and so forth, the less innovation it got. For a user, there are no substantial changes whatsoever between the various versions of Microsoft Windows. The article is about a Brazilian CEO who decided to give his employees freedom to choose their hours and their tools, with some surprising results like loyalty and efficiency.

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=124700,00.asp - cached - mail it - history

IE not recommended

"Some design elements on this Web site may render awkwardly if font sizes are changed in browser preferences or if viewed through Internet Explorer, because of its cavalier treatment of HTML and CSS standards"

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · browser · erablog · quips · usability · w3c · 20060619-0123

http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/ - cached - mail it - history

Classic tidbit of the day .... "In portuguese Fedora means Stink"

robertc's advogato diary

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 advocacy · distro · erablog · linux · quips · 20060619-0123

http://www.advogato.org/person/robertc/diary.html?start=33 - cached - mail it - history

Untitled

A classic, read it if you haven't "2-3. Wait, what about the 'Buddah'? He spends his time hanging out with Ghandi in New Dheli. Munching on gerkhins, no doubt."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · faq · humor · peeves · quips · religion · society · usenet · 20060619-0123

http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/alt.buddha.short.fat.guy.FAQ - cached - mail it - history

E-mail, tech policy and more > The Politics of E-mail Authentication, 2006 Edition

Dr. John on MARID, DKIM, etc "Bad authentication is worse than no authentication because a bad system will sometimes pass bad mail and fail good mail, meaning either that mail gets even less reliable than it is now, or more likely that mail systems only pretend to use it and outsiders end up scratching their heads wondering why it didn't help. (Most of the people who claim to use SPF or Sender-ID are just pretending, the few foolish or deseperate ones that really do reject lots of legit mail.)"

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · mail · quips · security · 20060619-0123

http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/authpolitics.html?seemore=y - cached - mail it - history

Assholes

"This site requires Microsoft Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP, or 2003. Browsers supported include Internet Explorer V5.01 or later, and AOL V6.0 or later."

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 advocacy · erablog · linux · quips · 20060619-0123

http://toeflpractice.ets.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Murdoch "warns" that power shifts from trad media to Internet | Reuters.co.uk

Bias? What bias? Seriously, if Murdoch is concerned, that is good news. "[The web] is a creative, destructive, technology that is still in its infancy, yet breaking and remaking everything in its path." -- Rupert Murdoch

by era 2006-06-19 01:24 blog · erablog · journalism · politics · quips · society · zeitgeist · 20060619-0123

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2006-03-14T100148Z_01_L14504759_RTRUKOC_0_UK-... - cached - mail it - history

sourcefrog : Tasteful and attractive composites

"Why post ideas? It's not to get credit for originality. It's because in this specific context, at this specific time, we should discuss and possibly implement those ideas."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · erablog · opensource · quips · versionctrl · 20060619-0123

http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/vc/bzr/composites.html - cached - mail it - history

Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

Some near-synonyms are just not synonyms "The cataloguers first reaction to that is, 'Oh my god, that means you won't be introducing the movies people to the cinema people!' To which the obvious answer is 'Good. The movie people don't want to hang out with the cinema people.' Those terms actually encode different things, and the assertion that restricting vocabularies improves signal assumes that that there's no signal in the difference itself, and no value in protecting the user from too many matches. When we get to really contested terms like queer/gay/homosexual, by this point, all the signal loss is in the collapse, not in the expansion. 'Oh, the people talking about "queer politics" and the people talking about "the homosexual agenda", they're really talking about the same thing.' Oh no they're not. If you think the movies and cinema people were going to have a fight, wait til you get the queer politics and homosexual agenda people in the same room."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · erablog · folksonomy · ontology · quips · 20060619-0123

http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html - cached - mail it - history

The Unmoroniser: using Unicode in the Demoroniser

Attempts to translate Word's so-called HTML to proper HTML "Good typography [isn't] something Microsoft invented to be annoying." Good rant overall, I wish I had written it (-:

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 advocacy · blog · download · erablog · html · opensource · quips · software · unicode · w3c · 20060619-0123

http://rheme.net/unmoroniser/ - cached - mail it - history

Learn. [IRC transcript]

Charlie Loyd teaches typography "After the Second World War, Tschichold pointed out that reading was not a field in which it was desirable to attempt to imitate robots, and in later life was a kickass humanist."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · deepsite · erablog · history · quips · typography · unicode · writing · 20060619-0123

http://rheme.net/typo-intro - cached - mail it - history

Why Worry About IE

"If Microsoft knows that you donât have to choose its products, it has to make them at least a little bit good." "In the last year I have for the first time been forced to work with Windows, and it makes me angry. It amazes me that average people all over the world have the patience to put up with this every day just to get their work done. It infuriates me that they have to: that theyâre putting up with this rather than with an equally annoying but fundamentally better way of using computers. Itâs a great deal of wasted effort. I feel terrible when I imagine the people who are permanently soured on all the beautiful things computers can show just because Windows always annoyed them. I canât blame them and I wish I could help them. Windows presents so much of what people complain about when they complain about computers â dehumanization, arbitraryness, needless complexity, and confusion â that I think weâd be a noticeably healthier society, and more reconciled to our tools, if it hadnât become the default."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 advocacy · blog · erablog · opensource · quips · 20060619-0123

http://rheme.net/explorer - cached - mail it - history

Coding

Advice to a budding programmer "Computer science isnât really a science any more than itâs a branch of math or storytelling, but the name is a reminder of its descriptive, deductive, statistical side. Itâs not hard to find emergent, or at least consistently weird-seeming, behavior."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 advocacy · blog · erablog · programming · quips · 20060619-0123

http://rheme.net/coding - cached - mail it - history

Yet Another "Use Styles" Verbal Beating!

On Proper Use of Styles in Word (or any other markup either, I guess) "If you're embarking on a project that needs special care, such as a book or manual. Or something that will surely go through major modifications, like a contract or agreement, if you don't start the document off by taking the time to create a custom template and predefined styles for the project, you're only going to work a lot harder in the long run, than you would, had you used those styles."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 03a · css · erablog · markup · quips · 20060619-0123

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=232 - cached - mail it - history

Writing, Briefly

"ask friends which sentence you'll regret most" -- Paul Graham

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · erablog · essay · quips · writing · 20060619-0123

http://paulgraham.com/writing44.html - cached - mail it - history

What Business Can Learn from Open Source

"I suspect professionalism was always overrated-- not just in the literal sense of working for money, but also connotations like formality and detachment. ... [A] lot of what makes offices bad are the very qualities we associate with professionalism." -- Paul Graham

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · erablog · essay · jobhunting · quips · 20060619-0123

http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html - cached - mail it - history

How to Do What You Love

"It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to make it prestigious." -- Paul Graham

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · erablog · essay · jobhunting · quips · 20060619-0123

http://paulgraham.com/love.html - cached - mail it - history

MyHeritage - face recognition for genealogy

"Discover people who look just like you on the other side of their planet" [sic]

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 ai · blog · erablog · genealogy · quips · science · 20060619-0123

http://myheritage.com/FP/Company/face_recognition.php?s=1&lang=EN - cached - mail it - history

Hixie's Natural Log: Tag Soup: Blocks-in-inlines

More from Hixie on how different browsers handle the DOM "Who would have thought that you would find Heisenberg-like quantum effects in an HTML parser. I mean, I knew they were obscure, but this is just taking the biscuit. The problem is I now have to determine which of these four options to make the other three browsers implement (that is, which do I put in the spec). What do you think is the most likely to be accepted by the others? As a reminder, the options are incestual elements that can be their own uncles, elements who have secret lives in the rendering engine, elements that change their mind about who their parents are half-way through their childhood, and quantum elements whose parents change depending on whether you observe their birth or not." -- Hixie

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · browser · demo · dom · erablog · javascript · quips · standard · w3 · 20060619-0123

http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1138169545&count=1 - cached - mail it - history

"Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX pretty than it is to make Windows secure."

-- John Simpson's .signature Just for the record, cat - logfile < by era 2006-06-19 01:23 advocacy · peeve · quips · shell · unix · 20060619-0123

http://listarchive.qmailrocks.org/attach/1@20051130.014658.81b51b2b.attach - cached - mail it - history

Mark Hughes: Quotes

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 03a · deepsite · quips · quotes · 20060619-0123

http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/Quotes/ - cached - mail it - history

The mutterings of a programmer: Distributed Revision Control No Threat, Pt. II

"By the time a group of users is willing to hostily fork a project, the choice of RCS is moot."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 development · opensource · quips · versionctrl · 20060619-0123

http://jamesdblackwell.blogspot.com/2005/08/distributed-revision-control-no-threat.html - cached - mail it - history

When your system is secure, you can stop being scared

Re: the Netcraft toolbar, tangentially. "Every piece of software on his computer was updated, his system was totally clean, and get this, he was learning how to use the software himself and becoming a knowledgable computer user because he could be safely productive on his machine."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · browser · erablog · extension · firefox · quips · security · www · 20060619-0123

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/1959249&tid=172&tid=95 - cached - mail it - history

Sarge vs. The Hoary Hedgehog?

"Ian Murdoch, Debian's founding father, does not believe Ubuntu's popularity bodes well for Debian-based distros." (Brr, Flash ad even on the "printer friendly" page!)

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · debian · erablog · linux · quips · ubuntu · 20060619-0123

http://internetnews.com/dev-news/print.php/3496541 - cached - mail it - history

Slashdot | The Grumpy Groundhog - Ubuntu for Developers

I like "Dystro" :-) "So, I'd be interested in what you'd propose. Instead of 'Grumpy Groundhog', would you prefer, say, 'Electric Tornado Linux!' or 'Silver Bullet Train Linux!!' or 'Kung Fu Fists of Fury Linux!!!'? Maybe you were leaning more in the direction of 'Ultra Rainbow Happy Linux of Most Excellentnessestness'. Or, perhaps, you're more in the made-up names camp: 'Xinux', 'Lazernix', 'Mythix', 'Dystro', 'Majickx', or 'UzerGlow'. These, certainly, are more exciting than 'Mepis', 'Xandros', or the disaster that is 'Mandriva'. Dude, personally, if I came across a distro called 'Salma Hayek's Breasts Linux', I would use that in preference to anything else on the basis of the name alone. So, yeah, I agree, names have power."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 erablog · quips · ubuntu · 20060619-0123

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/01/1741229&from=rss - cached - mail it - history

Damian Conway on Justice

Quote from Object Oriented Perl (1999), p306 "It's worth noting that Perl visits a satisfying form of Instant Justice on the author of this code. Since the code doesn't 'use strict', ... the code executes without complaint, yet mysteriously fails ..., leading to happy hours of fruitless debugging."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · book · erablog · perl · programming · quips · 20060619-0123

http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/18017 - cached - mail it - history

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

On the "blessings" of the Microsoft(R) One True IDE(tm). Good thing I only run Emacs on Linux. "Not only must you code in a bottom-up structure, but within each method or property, you must also write you code linearly from beginning to end â just as if you were using that old DOS line editor, EDLIN."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 advocacy · blog · development · erablog · programming · quips · software · 20060619-0123

http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html - cached - mail it - history

» if (Windows Rules) then (Linux fails) | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com

"With Windows servers you install everything you're licensed to because the dependencies are largely unknown, with Linux you install what you need -because what isn't there doesn't have vulnerabiliites, use resources, or require patching."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 advocacy · blog · erablog · fud · linux · opensource · quips · 20060619-0123

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=473=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog - cached - mail it - history

Le blog personnel de Joe Clark - i let u b u

"If smart, informed people are using b or i, it's because they have made smart, informed decisions to do so."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 blog · design · html · quips · standard · w3c · 20060619-0123

http://blog.fawny.org/2004/05/16/ubu - cached - mail it - history

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger : Page 5

"When Apple comes calling with their own open source Unix creations, I think it's foolish not to pay attention."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 erablog · opensource · quips · 20060619-0123

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/5 - cached - mail it - history

Are iterations hazardous to your project?

Simply using iterations, user stories and velocity doesn't mean your project is agile - or on the way to success. "Replace your worrying about how short you can make an iteration to worrying about how long it takes to move from opening a new requirement until that requirement is integrated into the deployment base with acceptance tests."

by era 2006-06-19 01:23 agile · blog · development · erablog · iterative · quips · software · 20060619-0123

http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/aih/areiterationshazardous.htm - cached - mail it - history

Joel on Software

"Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. 'It's ok! I have great advisors standing on the shore telling me what to do!' they say, and then fall off the board, again and again."

by era 2006-06-19 01:20 blog · erablog · quips · software · development

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html - cached - mail it - history