Software As She’s Developed

For a while, I’ve been meaning to check out how WordPress handles category-specific feeds. Having such feeds available would free me to write boring posts like this without fearing people will spill their cornflakes as they browse the morning Software Development feed. Thus, this post is under “General”, which I will use for a confusing […]

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Triple J, a fine Aussie youth radio station, has started podcasting (thanks Splatt). Right now, it’s just a trial by one show - Hack. Still, this is a milestone for Aussie radio. First. Podcast. Ever. I’m feeling out of touch as I haven’t heard it before, but this “Hack” show seems to be more about […]

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On Internet Explorer, Click the left mouse button to listen, or click the right mouse buttton and “Save As…” to download. You can subscribe for updates straight into your PC or ipod - it’s easy and free. Refer to the podcasting FAQ at http://podca.st. Here’s the third of four podcasts on agile software development. The […]

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I’ve recently noticed several systems that go out of their way to optimise the out-of-the-box experience: A FreeView TV box . When I turned it on for the first time, it came up with a menu asking me a few basic questions, like what area I’m in. So the main preferences were done, and I didn’t […]

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Martin Fowler is talking about incrementally improving specialised requirements such as usability or security or internationalisation one step at a time, in much the same way as agile projects should enhance functionality one step at a time. On usability, it can be done. Indeed, one of the nice things about agile projects is you can get […]

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Alistair Cockburn has started an RSS feed to track changes to writings. Not a blog (yet). The last agile podcast pointed to Alistair’s Crystal methodology.

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My previous blog entry discussed fun with technology, and I alluded to the Firefox language extension. Well, that’s quite a simple idea just takes one random term on the page and provides a translation. Still, it’s a nice idea and perhaps there is more being planned. There are some other nice browsing tools too, […]

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Language teachers have traditionally tried to make language learning fun, employing tools such as songs and games. But then, a lot of that is contrived, and many learners - adults and especially teens - don’t take kindly to reciting nursery rhymes and clapping their hands together while sitting in a circle. Now, technology can be […]

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General Technology Predictions: This will not be the year of the podcast, nor the year of the corporate blog - though both will expand rapidly. They will have to wait until 2006. Instead, 2005 will be the year of customisation. Google or microsoft will provide something like a “My News” portal, based on a mix of […]

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