Here’s a follow-up Dilbert to this one.
Monthly Archives: April 2005
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Apr 05
Brush painting
Undeveloped thoughts of the week:
“UI development is like painting the faces of a thousand army men with a little brush. Enterprise server development is like painting a stadium with a roller in the dark.”
Let me add that each soldier of the thousand army men is made out of different materials, requiring you to change your brush & color technology constantly. And some of them move while getting painted.
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Apr 05
Exploratory Testing using Personas
Exploratory Testing using Personas:
Lesson learned: Get the customer data when they are using the software in their own work environment.
Good read.
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Apr 05
podscope – your’re listening. we’re searching
If podscope is real, then it’s really, really cool. I’m impressed.
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Apr 05
Open-Source Music
Trent Reznor is releasing a new single as a fully editable GarageBand file.
Most certainly not my kind of music. But what a bold move: Open-Source music.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
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Apr 05
Usable Help
Usable Help: “Examining documentation and help systems for software and consumer products.”
Great content plus a great blogroll on technical writing. Recommend for all folks dealing with technical documentation (you know who you are, don’t you).
(via michael-mccracken.net).