The best Amazon review ever! (11)
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Found in the reviews for the Boldtext Pew Bible: King James Version here: Doesn’t work, March 21, 2008 By Jed This book doesn’t work. I’ve tried the “praying” method to get a new Porsche 996 delivered but to no avail. There’s nothing in the instructions about not wanting German sports cars but I tried praying for less ambitious things. I gave up when it didn’t even get me a Big Mac. In the early part ...
The Changing Face of Minicomics, Part 3 (1)
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In part one we looked at perhaps the most unloved of “minicomics”, the current crop of “new” minis, which are often viewed as the “wrong size” and too professional-looking by some traditional minicomics creators, and not professional enough by some mainstream publishers. And in part two, we looked at how some creators are developing a much more professional product through a combination of new technologies. In The Changing Face of Minicomics Part 3, we will ...
The Law of Conservation of Complexity in the Business (1)
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Last month, I wrote about conservation of complexity and how it applies to how we design systems. It's also a factor in the organization too, for a company to achieve a certain result there is a minimum amount of effort that needs to be expended by someone. Just like with technology, you can make it a whole lot harder on top of this with excess bureaucracy and orthogonal activities, but there is a certain amount ...
11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0 (75)
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Yesterday we wrote about Enterprise 2.0 from the point of view of the Enterprise, the buyer. The conclusion was that the impact of social media on the Enterprise was very big, addressing the very "nature of the firm". This post looks at Enterprise 2.0 from the point of view of the vendor, specifically startups. This is a 30,000 foot view, but we aim to get past the hype to insights you can use in your ...
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Sean said:
I think this is a good list. My advice for startups that want to pitch me business? 1) Understand that just because you don't like MS products my business (an most other enterprises) run on a Microsoft backbone. Integrate with AD for security and run on IIS. 2) Understand my business, and how we are structured. Professional service orgs. are very different than big companies.
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maccman said:
Very interesting article
The Beijing Olympics - Are They A Trap? (3)
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As the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics is only hours away as I write this, The Onion asks an important question: The Beijing Olympics - Are They A Trap? ‘In The Know’ panelists discuss whether athletes will be able to escape the bamboo cages the Chinese government will try to imprison them in.
Balsamiq Mockups (2)
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A few days ago, I drafted a blog entry where I imagined a GUI sketching and mockup tool. I was not aware of any such tool, so I came up with a handful of requirements: Be incredibly easy to use Allow rapid 2D GUI sketching Support “storyboarding” to show transitions and behavior as you move from screen-to-screen Realism Sucks Most tools I’ve seen are not geared towards “sketching”. Instead, they let you layout GUI components ...
BBC + Olympics + Jamie Hewlett (6)
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With music by Damon Albarn, and imagery by Jamie Hewlett — the duo that brought us the Gorillaz — I am loving BBC Sport’s marketing campaign for the Chinese Olympics. It’s certainly more visually appealing than, um, China’s Mickey Mouse statues. Related: Vibe with Jamie Hewlett Jamie Hewlett on the Culture Show Designer of the Year? Jamie Hewlett Obscure Jamie Hewlett Stuff
How to Write 3v1L, Untestable Code (34)
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by Miško Hevery, Jonathan Wolter, Russ Ruffer, Brad Cross, and lots of other test infected GooglersThis guide lists principles that will help you write impossible to tests code. Or, avoiding these techniques will help you write code that can be tested. Make Your Own Dependencies - Instantiate objects using new in the middle of methods, don't pass the object in. This is evil because whenever you new up an object inside a block of code ...
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Karpuscul said:
Лучший пост про тестирование за всю мою жизнь! Be evil ;)
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Steve said:
I'm not sure that "Be Defensive" is a bad thing--but good (anti)advice overall..
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glongman said:
required reading!!!!!!!!!!
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kalle said:
Utils (toolboxes) ftw! More static ftw!
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Robert Conn said:
Really detailed article that will make you a better tester, good stuff!
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Behind the Scenes of a Google Query (4)
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A lot of people have used Google but few have any idea as to the complexity and computer power necessary to return billions of queries with millions of results all in under a second. This isn’t by accident, an oversight by Google or even due to security concerns, Google believes in not making search seem complicated to users. This notion is perhaps best illustrated in Google’s “Technology Overview”, which uses just 5 images and 4 ...
Moebius Redux (2)
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A 47-minute documentary about Jean Giraud (AKA “Moebius”), one of the most influential comic book artists of all time. I’ve only had time to watch about half of it, but it’s a really thorough biographical overview with some nice shots of him inking at his desk.
Self-Publish Your Own Magazine With MagCloud (6)
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Have you every wanted to run your own magazine, but never had enough money or a large enough audience to make it worthwhile? Well, if there's one thing that the self-publishing industry can cater to, it's the long tail. Now, thanks to a startup called MagCloud, even the smallest of ventures can produce their own, professional, full-color magazine and without the costs normally associated with hiring traditional publishing companies. About MagCloud MagCloud is another project ...
Hadoop Query Languages (1)
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If you want a high-level query language for drilling into your huge Hadoop dataset, then you've got some choice:Pig, from Yahoo! and now incubating at Apache, has an imperative language called Pig Latin for performing operations on large data files.Jaql, from IBM and soon to be open sourced, is a declarative query language for JSON data.Hive, from Facebook and soon to become a Hadoop contrib module, is a data warehouse system with a declarative query ...
Panini Sticker Hijack! (1)
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England may be missing from Euro 2008, but they don’t have to be missing from your sticker album. Download a free set of England stickers from beachy.co.uk and replace some of the more rubbish Euro players in your album with England ones. All you need is an inkjet printer and a standard sheet of 12 address labels. England 2008 team and cards from Football Heroes See Red! Written by Beach-o-matic - View Profile | Share ...
Michael Patricios: Getting into iPhone development (1)
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So, I have an iPhone, I have a Mac and I have some ideas. It seemed only right that I combine them and build an iPhone application. Only problem... I hadn't done C or C++ in years and Objective-C looked a bit daunting. But, what the hell, I took the plunge.I am happy to report that it's not too bad. Working in xcode however is nowhere near as rewarding as IntelliJ or Eclipse. Just setting ...
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As we continue to work on the code that will eventually become stackoverflow, we belatedly realized that we'd be contributing to the glut of username and passwords on the web. I have fifty online logins, and I can't remember any of them! Adding that fifty-first set of stackoverflow.com credentials is unlikely to help matters. With some urging from my friend Jon Galloway, I decided to take a look at OpenID. OpenID aims to solve the ...Shared by Cyli or Lithie (18) Jack (17) jeroendemiranda (37) karnoult (16) Mark (12) Mike F (839) tylermac (19)Contribute commentHacker News (2009) permalink
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Filed under: Transportation Google.org, the search kingpin's philanthropic wing, has just added another notch to its eco-friendly belt with a recent (and sizable) investment in Aptera Motors -- makers of that absurdly futuristic gas-sipper we've been following. Along with ActaCell (an electric car battery maker), Aptera received a $2.75 million infusion via Google.org's RechargeIT investment program. Hopefully, some of the cash will be put to use bringing Aptera's Typ-1 vehicle to market, where its $30,000 ...Shared by Alex Dang (18) Mark (12)Contribute comment
