Global Software Testing Network uTest Opens to All (11)
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Need your software tested for functionality, usability, and durability by a global supply chain of assessors? A company by the name of uTest, based in Ashland, Massachusetts, is today announcing the general availability of its network of service specialists for the software developer arena. The network is intended to offer a controlled, pseudo real-world trial of a particular application and present a quality feedback report, complete with bugs discovered and the like. It calls its ...
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Stanton said:
Mashable just featured our product launch!
Implementing linked multiselects with jQuery, LiveQuery, and Low Pro: Part 1: Requirements and interaction design (2)
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Last week I spent a couple of days lashing together a UI widget for a project that needed a little Ajax assistance. As always, I looked for an opportunity to learn something along the way, so I got signoff on using jQuery and some plugins I hadn't previously employed. The result? A down-and-dirty mini-project that let me test drive Color Animations, jqModal and Low Pro for jQuery while employing tried-and-true solutions such as jQuery Templates ...
Where Are We In The Hype Cycle? (66)
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New technologies tend to follow different trajectories of hype, hope, and despair as they are discovered by different groups of people and finally adopted (or ignored) by consumers. Gartner actually goes ahead and charts this hype cycle for different technologies. Its latest hype cycle for 2008, shown above, is making the rounds. (It was released in July, but is just now reaching the upward trajectory in its own cycle). According to Gartner’s view of the ...
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Scott said:
I love this graph
First Android Phone Just Approved By FCC (31)
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Today, the news broke that the HTC Dream, the first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents provided, it appears that we have now a release date for this highly anticipated phone: November 10th, 2008. So what will the HTC Dream offer? We take a look at some of the details and unknowns surrounding this device. This morning Engadget Mobile broke the news of the ...
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Brian said:
interesting... a reason to stick with t-mobile? time will tell
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nyenyec said:
I'm planning to get one.
Use MacVim and rails.vim plugin to edit your Rails work (3)
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RailsOnWave Ruby on Rails web 2.0 Ajax - Home (9)
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MacVim is the best editor ever to work with Ruby and Ruby on Rails code. A couple of years ago I bought a copy of TextMate, the preferred and “exclusive” text editor of Ruby on Rails community. Two years ago I was a newcomer to Ruby language and Rails framework and TextMate helped me to enter quickly in this marvelous world. Coming back to then I chose this editor because on Rails official web site ...
Web 2.0 University to launch in Australia and NZ (2)
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acidlabs and Hinchcliffe & Company are pleased to announce that they agreed to a partnership that will see acidlabs bring Web 2.0 University to Australia and New Zealand. Web 2.0 University is the world’s leading education service to help business and technical leaders move their businesses into the 21st Century. Web 2.0 University contains practical and hard hitting premium education that delves deeply into the design patterns and business models for taking businesses fully into ...
Innovation: Historic Intellectual Property Ruling Could Validate Open Licenses (14)
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If I apply some wacky new type of license to my creative work, is it going to hold up in court if a conflict comes down to that? According to some participants, a key US court yesterday made a decision in favor of free, open intellectual property licenses like Creative Commons, though the details of the decision are complicated. We're not big fans of intellectual property law, but some innovations in the field are facilitating ...
25+ Tools For Accounting and Budgeting (21)
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There are a growing number of online services dedicated to helping users manage their finances. There are many benefits to using these accounting applications, they can simplify the process as well as help you find ways to save money. Here are 25+ tools for accounting and budgeting both personal and business finances. Here you’ll find resources for keeping track of business expenses, finding out if you’re being charged hidden fees, invoicing roommates, and more. Which ...
People Finder: Searching Without Logic? (4)
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One of the most frequent tasks on many intranets is finding people within the company. Providing an effective way to search people is thus a key goal in designing intranets. This goal becomes even more important for an organization like Emirates, a leading international airline, which has over 35,000 employees with over 140 nationalities and where more people are likely to use this feature more frequently.Our intranet provides many applications that have a people finder ...
The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type (54)
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Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks. With Six Apart's recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking ...
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Tcritic said:
it would be great if something like openID or some kind of common identity component could be used to tie together disparate networks.
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Jay said:
其实，我很想一些插件，把我用 WP 搭建的 Jaylee.cn 与校内、Facebook 上的朋友互动起来。
12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers (41)
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Unit Testing is one of the pillars of Agile Software Development. First introduced by Kent Beck, unit testing has found its way into the hearts and systems of many organizations. Unit tests help engineers reduce the number of bugs, hours spent on debugging, and contribute to healthier, more stable software. In this post we look at a dozen unit testing tips that software engineers can apply, regardless of their programming language or environment. 1. Unit ...
Web Form Patterns (3)
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The UI Pattern Factory recently published some additional examples of two interface design concepts I outlined in Web Form Design.Primary & Secondary Actions: Match the visual presentation of actions to their importance to get users through a form as quickly as possible. Example imagesStacked Tabs: A potential solution for dealing with selection-dependent inputs for Web forms. Example ImagesTags: forms, patterns, interface
Freebase Parallax Taunts Us With Awesome Semantic Web Video (17)
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Staff researcher David François Huynh has created an interesting tool for browsing semantic database Freebase, called Freebase Parallax. Written up by ZDNet's Oliver Marks, the video Huynh recorded demonstrating Parallax (below) will knock your socks off. Unfortunately, actually using Parallax demonstrates just how far from solid Freebase, one of the semantic web's poster children, really is. The idea is to allow you to apply multiple filters for your searches and embed live charts in a ...
The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms (2)
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In the August/September issue of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Bulletin, I wrote an article about The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms. Here's a preview: "Recently, I was asked to distill the hundreds of web form design best practices I've been researching and documenting into my “top three tips for designing good forms.” It wasn’t until a few days later that I began to realize what all three of my ...
