As a eXtreme Programming follower, I like reviews, especially the peer-to-peer reviews. In fact, as a software engineer I think reviews are necessary. Reviews help in bringing attention to faults before they go into the testing when the effort can get magnified. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsPosts for April, 2007
Is Forgiveness The Best Approach?
Jeff Atwood thinks that forgiveness is required for any wide-scale adoption like the Web. To be more precise, forgiveness in the way errors in technology are handled. It is necessary to forgive the errors rather than let the error take over the application. [Continue]
Third Party Scripts Here
A friend voiced some concerns about the various third party web sites that appeared in the status bar while loading this blog. These would be the “Looking up …” or “Waiting for …” messages with the web site addresses. This post is to assure you, the reader, that all the third party scripts that are being used here are trustworthy. [Continue]
Review Of Debain WrEtch
If you use any Linux distro, especially Debian Linux, you will enjoy this review of Debain WrEtch. It is simply hilarious, even if you are a Microsoft loyal. Though fictional, the traces of Linux illiteracy are quite common. [Continue]
Free Broadband In India
The Economic Times reported that the Indian Government is planning to make broadband freely available to all residents by the year 2009. I have a mixed reaction, a bit excited and a bit skeptical. First of all, I do not think it will really be free, someone/something will have to pay for the money that the Government will be spending. [Continue]
Software Development, Analogies, Garden, Restaurant And …
A lot of people have tried to explain what software development is using analogies. Even though analogies are not always efficient, they can highlight especially the problems in layman terms. Kevin Barnes recently shows how a code garden makes more sense than the usual factory comparison. [Continue]
Flex Is Open
Adobe has open sourced Flex (press release). Good news for developers, and eventually it will be good for Adobe too. Adobe had already contributed to Tamarin and now it has make its name bolder in good books of a lot of developers. [Continue]
Open Source And Money
There seems to be some activity this week around earnings through open source. First there is Hugh Macleod’s question about finding billionaires in open source. There were some replies, but the one that hit the nail is Jeff Atwood’s The lack of open source software billionaires is by design. [Continue]
Complete Wellbeing - A Magazine Using WordPress - I
Complete Wellbeing (CW) is a monthly print magazine, dedicated to you and your wellbeing, a first-of-its-kind in India. Yours truly had the opportunity to build an online presence for the magazine under some restrictions. The online website was supposed to play a role of a companion website, something that will promote the print magazine and build a place for discussions on the articles. [Continue]
Mapping The Blogosphere
Doc Searls found a blackhole. Matthew Hurst of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, a social media expert, has mapped the activity in the blogosphere by collecting link data. He provides multiple views, focusing on various aspects. [Continue]
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