Archive for August, 2004
Monday, August 30th, 2004
One of the students who's going to be working on Hippo this fall sent a message to the group asking for everyone's MSN IDs, so that the team could set up group chats. That got me thinking about how many different ways there are to communicate electronically these days, ...
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
So, how good is your software team? Joel Spolsky (who runs a
company called Fog Creek, and
writes a weblog that
everyone in the software industry either reads, or ought to) has a 12-question
test to help you measure how well your team is doing. How do the
student teams hosted on Pyre
do?
...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2004
Well, here they are: this summer's favorite links.
http://websavvy-access.org/resources/top_ten.php
Accessibility Guidelines
web accessibility guidelines
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/APIUsability.pdf
APIUsability.pdf
usability studies; APIs
http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/papers/06-02-01/06-02-01.pdf
Circles, Triangles, Rectangles
extensible programming; technical articles; programming languages
http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/04/22/118161.aspx
Cleaner, more elegant, and wrong
programming examples; exceptions
...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
Where has the summer gone? We've written a lot of software (and documentation), but there's still a lot to do before Helium (er, sorry, Hippo---we're renaming it, for reasons that are too silly to go into) is ready to deploy.
Eleven undergraduates from the Department of Computer Science at the ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2004
A few months ago, Carlos Perez blogged about someone else's claim to have built a mildly complex web app using Ruby in just two months. Perez argued that one reason Ruby-based development was so much faster than Java-based development would have been was:
Java web app frameworks typically use lots ...
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Friday, August 6th, 2004
In this blog posting from May 2004, Johanna Rothman talks about how easy it is to build a schedule for a small project using just yellow sticky notes. Back in June, I commented on Roy Osherove's whiteboard-based project management, and asked for links to software tools that were as ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2004
Four weeks left until the summer's work on Hippo (formerly Helium)
winds down, and we're starting to run into the 10% of cases that make
up 90% of the grief. For example, consider the problem of keeping
track of the relationships between users and projects. In SourceForge and other systems, this ...
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