Just a quick nod to a great post over on Coding Horror about the importance of interaction design… I just couldn’t stop laughing about this quote from Alan Cooper.
The Ultimate Unit Test Failure:
But when it comes time to marshal the solution to the problems, we find ourselves slamming into this kind of Stay-Puft Marshmallow [...]
No Man’s Land is a business book aimed primarily at entrepreneurs whose companies have reached the dreaded plateau in sales/profit/customer acquisition/etc. The author, Doug Tatum, calls this lull the “No Man’s Land” where companies either decide to stay small, restructure and break out, or wither and die. The book definitely serves it’s purpose, [...]
A great set of slides about the book The Pragmatic Programmer”, which an oldie but a goodie from way back in 1999.
Pragmatic Programmer presentation posted:
I’ve posted the slides from a presentation I gave at work to our software development team on the Pragmatic Programmer book. This collection of common-sense practices has become kind of a [...]