Friday, May 2, 2003

Still More Mini Book Reviews. This month, Pat's been reading about RSS, MySQL, hacking Google and web programming. [Linux Journal] 8:16:20 AM    comment []

Blog Poetry This is a REALLY nice hack by Mark Pilgrim.  It will take words from a site that you give it and allow you to arrange them like those magnets you can buy for your refrigerator and make poetry out of.  8:05:39 AM    comment []

Let's Talk About Brian. Brian Marick, a mentor of mine who happens to have mad testing skills among many other talents, posted one of his short STQE essays. It's an insightful piece into how the methodologies and techniques we employ are reflections of our personalities. Just one of my favorite lines: "Let's stop talking about best practices and start talking about what practices work best for us, right here, in a particular team, with that team's personality." Spot on. [Mike Clark] Very interesting approach.  I wonder how difficult it would be to get group think to decide on a practice for a project team during the start-up phase of a project.  It seems like it could take some time.  Maybe you could just let the team's practices evolve like your own have.  Everyone's individual practices coming together and forming a group practice.  Emergent behavior!  I like it. But, I have to wonder -- is not forcing people into a best practice a means of avoiding conflict?  ;-) 7:58:54 AM    comment []

Brave New World. This article in Wired reminded me of our own MP3 Piranha:A little application that lets you create a digital music library on your desktop from the CD covers on Amazon.com -- that would be cool. It's happening, it all depends on XML and, so far, it's legal. [CapeBlog] The wired article is really interesting.  A little sneak preview of some of the new breed of Internet applications and platforms.  I'm going to have to seek out and download the Clutter application they mention. CapeScience's MP3 Piranha sounds interesting, too.  7:48:50 AM    comment []

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