Rob’s scribbles

Very nice!

Google Earth for iPhone

Had it for week now and I’m still finding new uses for it.

First phone I’ve had that is more useful every day after I bought it!

Constraints and Software Development - O’Reilly ONLamp Blog

“Constraints are Good”

Michael Feathers’ Blog: The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design

When I write tests and I have the urge to test a private method, I take
it as a hint… I listen to the hint, and factor my design differently.

*very* nice

mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet - Apache - ILoveJackDaniels.com

Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development

Hilarious…. but painfully true:

“Why do those idiots keep hitting that button?” is heard in IT shops much more frequently than “Why don’t we get rid of that button?”

Why? Because we are smarter than they are. That’s why we’re in IT.

How many times have you been annoyed at a website for the number of *Required fields you had to fill out before you could proceed? Now imagine going to that website 200 times a day and having to fill out all those damned *Required fields. Now you start to get an idea of what users go thru when you roll out your flashy new system with all the ooh ahs everyone loved in the demos. There’s a good reason “lakjdlaksdjlaskdjlaskdj” is found in so many databases: users have to type SOMETHING to move on.

Technologist Manifesto…, or Things Everyone in IT Should Know

Interesting alternative approach to classes/objects in Perl 5

use Perl | Slides from NY Inside-Out Talk

One of those tasty, pithy snipets that rings so true:

particletree > Idea x Execution