I just read this by Michael Bolton on testing, but I think it has more general application: It occurs to me this evening that when test plans, test scripts, and testers look for particular problems with excessive focus, they do so at the expense of peripheral vision. Contrast that with what Adam Richardson says about […]
“Don’t worry about other people stealing your ideas. If you’re ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” – Howard Aiken, IBM Engineer This is my favorite quote for the day. Innovation, with all the ideas and execution that it requires, fails to happen for so many reasons, but most common […]
The entrepreneur in me just beams with excitement reading this announcement from Amazon: Fulfillment by Amazon beta An Amazon Fulfillment Services Group Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a new program that makes delivering your Pro Merchant Program and WebStore orders a snap. You send your new and used products to us, and we’ll store them. […]
From Core77: [Michael] Bierut felt he started off being too “clever” – which I hear as new for new’s sake – and that wasn’t the right thing to do. I don’t think innovative means shocking, obviously new, different, and all that. I think innovation can be invisible and brilliant and seamless to adapt to, with […]
I’ve posted before about my dream car, but I just found my dream bike: The Tank Bike. German designers Oliver Keller and Tillman Schlootz presented their extremely extreme personal tank concept for the 2006 Michelin Design Challenge, showcasing vehicles made especially for California’s diverse and often rugged topography. Hyanide’s tread contains 77 (holla!) identical plastic-covered […]
I remember the first time I saw this Sony commercial, I was blown away. Check out the high quality QuickTime movie here. Simply amazing. This is the kind of creative advertising that inspires, entertains and sells. Well, it looks like they are at it again! What happens when you strap 70,000 liters of paint to […]
After reading John Siracusa’s hilarious post about WWDC Buzz Word Bingo, I got to thinking about what I’d most like to see at WWDC. Here’s my list: 1. Make it brain dead simple to write multi-threaded applications. How simple? If my application runs fast on a dual core machine, I want it to run twice […]
Now WebKit includes a JavaScript debugger named Drosera. To use it you need to get the newest build of Safari and enter this in the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitScriptDebuggerEnabled -bool true The best quote is this one: One of the unique things about Drosera, like the Web Inspector, is that over 90% of it […]
When I wrote the title for this post, it seemed almost trite. I don’t mean it to be. The words we have at our disposal define the thoughts we are able to think. If you’ve learned another language and become fluent enough to think in that language, you know what I mean. I spent two […]
David Weiss 