http://www.lastcraft.com/blog Programs are written by people Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:00:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Agile development assumes that the participents are professionals. We take it for granted that everyone will do the best for the team, that everyone is skilled and capable, and that the team is focused on the project being successful for the sponser. It’s the assumption of doing the right thing ... http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=20 If you writing a user interface, make sure it responds in 1/10th of a second. That’s a pretty simple rule, and if you break it, you will distract the user. This rule has pretty much become law, never mind lore. You find it in books such as “The Humane Interface” ... http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=19 If you run a blog or Wiki you will be only too aware of the Google PageRank™ sytem. In case you have been on a rather extended holiday and/or in a long coma, it’s a system whereby your site climbs the search engine results page if lot’s of other people ... http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=18 The following analogy comes from Scrum. In fact I am going to quote Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle’s “Agile Software Development with Scrum"… A chicken and a pig are together when the chicken says, “Let’s start a restaurant!” The pig thinks it over and says “What would we call this restaurant?” ... http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=17 It’s an experiment. I want to see if URLs are dying. The idea is that the search engines are now so good, there is no need for a hard link to another site I have no control over. I’m a programmer and so I want loose coupling from my blog. Link ... http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=15 You cannot prove anything by testing. No matter how hard you try, there could always be something wrong, or some combination of conditions or some external event that you haven’t thought of. You never know absolutely for sure that your project is working correctly and you never will. The nature of ... http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=12 I am not the slightest bit interested in your program. I am surrounded by problems and have a to-do list as long as my arm. The only reason I am at your web site right now is because I have heard an unlikely rumour that one of my problems will be ... http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=11 Books should change people. This one does. This is not an easy thing to do, but it gets even harder with mental distance between the author and reader. When you first learn something you are in an ideal position to explain it to someone on your own level. I think that’s ... http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=9