- The 7 Software Development Wastes – Lean series Part 4 – Transportation | Agile Software Development
Part 4 of 7 on waste in software development: Hand-offs. "Transportation in manufacturing corresponds to hand-offs in software development. Anytime you hand a deliverable off to a different party, there is some loss in the transfer of knowledge." (agile lean software_development waste )
- The 7 Software Development Wastes – Lean series Part 3 – Extra Processing | Agile Software Development
Part 3 of 7 on waste in software development: Extra processing. "[...] this can be equated to Relearning or Rework in Software development. The time we spend relearning things we once knew or having to rework the same feature due to poor code quality can be significant in many organizations, ergo, it's important to be mindful of this" (lean agile software_development waste )
- The 7 Sofware Development Wastes – Part 2 | Agile Software Development
Part 2 of 7 on software waste: Over-production. "In the software world, over-production is the same as excess features, features not really needed by customers. My understanding is that there is evidence to backup the fact that over 60% of features in software are ever used." (lean software_development agile waste )
- The 7 Software Development Wastes – Part 1 | Agile Software Development
Jack Milunksy – discuss one of seven software development wastes: Partially done work. "Partially done work is probably the biggest killer of all the wastes. Partially done work is essentially work-in-progress. Until this work is done, you don't know that there are quality issues i.e. you don't know that the customer will be happy." (lean software_development waste agile )
- Meet Google’s New Social Network: iGoogle
"Today, iGoogle is launching a series of new features that transform the start page into a social network of sorts, complete with its own social graph, activity feed, and applications." (igoogle social_media google )
- Homebrew Apps | PreCentral.net
(palm_pre app_store )
- YouTube – How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
Joshua Bloch at a Google Tech Talk. (design architecture google video presentation )
- ASA raps Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers over advertorials | Media | guardian.co.uk
The Advertising Standards Authority have "heavily criticised" the publishers of the Express newspapers. Gosh, that must have hit them hard. "The ASA ordered the Daily Express to ensure that advertorials were clearly labelled and said that all the claims that had been made about the three products should not appear again." And if they do it again the ASA could… criticise them *really* heavily. (newspapers advertising asa )
- Question Suggestions – small voyages into the collective psyche of humans who ask google questions
Screenshots of the often bizarre suggestions from Google as you type your search term. (humour search google )
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