- X marks the spot: new Oxford Circus crossing opens | UK news | guardian.co.uk
If ever I had to get to the other side of Oxford Circus I'd actually get on a bus, even if it was one stop just to cross the road, because it was so awful as a pedestrian. But now it's changed… "For many years the cramped, congested stretch where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet in the centre of London was one of the UK's least pleasant places to be a pedestrian. [...] The redesigned Oxford Circus, which opened this morning after a two-year, £5m makeover, contains two big innovations. As well as crossing the intersection laterally, pedestrians now have a 30-second window when all traffic stops and they can go at a diagonal along a giant X marked into the junction with metal studs. Known to road engineers, slightly alarmingly, as a "pedestrian scramble", it is modelled on the famously frantic junction adjoining Shibuya station in central Tokyo." (london transport )
- BBC Executive Remuneration Rreview (PDF)
The BBC Trust's review of executive and senior management pay. Interesting if only for the kinds of issues that need to be considered, and how they can be evaluated. (bbc business remuneration pay bbc_trust system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
- Ruminations » Blog Archive » My PNSQC Keynote with Agile Timeline
How agile testing has developed through the years, and lots of great recommendations. (agile testing quality presentation )
- Notes and quotes from Ecommerce Expo: Part 1 – "How little changes made a big difference at BA.com" – currybetdotnet – 30 October, 2009
"Mike Tomlinson gave a brilliant case study of how British Airways had used multi-variant testing on their website. [...] Tomlinson felt that introducing a regular programme of testing had begun to change the organisation. No longer were project managers stuck in lengthy meetings where people argued the toss over two slightly different link colours, instead they could say "Let's do both and measure!"." (user_experience testing multivariate_testing )
- Flickr Uploadr For WebOS. A Simple Mobile Solution For Flickr Photo Uploading
A brief discussion of a Flickr upload app for the Palm Pre. Not downloadable as an app, but the source is available on github. (flickr webos palm_pre software_development )
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