Tag Archives: Software Development
Built It or They Won’t Come
‘… Most of the successful versions of HTML have been “retro-specs,” catching up to the world while simultaneously trying to nudge it in the right direction. …
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That’s not to say that all shipping code wins; after all, … Code is … Continue reading
Posted in Quote, Web Development
Also tagged HTML, Mark Pilgrim, Release Often, Specifications, Standards
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Export, the Second Feature
I used to joke that the second feature to write is export. I don’t joke about it any more. Export is the 2nd feature you should implement for your software or web service.
There is nothing that says you care about … Continue reading
Posted in Software Development, Web Development
Also tagged datacide, Export, Features, Implementation, Import, Open Web, Software Applications, Software Design, Software Products
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Everything In Our Power
WordPress is a community of hundreds of people that read the code every day, audit it, update it, and care enough about keeping your blog safe that we do things like release updates weeks apart from each other even though … Continue reading
Posted in WordPress
Also tagged Community, Developers, Open Source, open source participants, Partici, Security, WordPress
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5% of Nothing
Makes me laugh and cry a little.
This alert is likely meant to warn that a whole lot of data is being added, modified or deleted as part of a sync. It’s an “oh crap, likely either you are doing some … Continue reading
Posted in Mac, Software Development
Also tagged Alert Box, Apple, Apple Mac, Aza Raskin, Consumer Software, Daniel Jalkut, Design Bugs, Interface Design, iPhone, iPhone 3.0, iTunes, iTunes 8.2, Mac OS X, Mac Sync, QA, Software, Software Design, Sync Alert, Synchronization, UI
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard, a Major Bug Fix Release
I’m looking forward to the release of the next version of Mac OS X, version 10.6 Snow Leopard this September. As a Software Quality Assurance (QA) practitioner, I find it particularly interesting that this major release is basically a bug … Continue reading
Posted in Mac, Testing
Also tagged Mac, Mac OS X, microsoft windows, QA, software experience, Software Performace, Testing, UI, Windows 7, windows vista
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SourceForge Projects Moving to WordPress
Open source project hosting has long been a topic that interests me. I stopped recommending venerable SourceForge.net some years ago, as it’s proprietary stack (open source prior to 2001) became crufty and fell behind some of the newer and more … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software Development, WordPress
Also tagged dotProject, Git, MediaWiki, Mercurial SCM, Open Source, Open Source Project Hosting, phpBB, Software Development Tools, SourceForge.net, subversion, TaskFreak!, Trac, WordPress
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Open Source Software Project Management Web Service?
Wow, the title “Open Source Software Project Management Web Service?” is a mouthful.
Working on a small project with a friend (mentioned in “Learning by doing something else“) is a great opportunity to check out tools in other parts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software Development
Also tagged Open Source, Project Management, Software Project Management, Web Services
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When Knowledge Disappears
The other day, I went to reread an amazing article Eli Goldberg wrote on “Verifying a bug” written when we were both working at Flock. I was saddened to find that http://wiki.flock.com/ has been replaced by a sparse “Flock developer … Continue reading
Posted in Flock, Software Development
Also tagged Eli Goldberg, Flock, information architect, instructional designer, knowledge, knowledge gardner, software experience, Vera Horiuchi
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