aggregators

Motivation

Data Structures in Java/C++ — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 03:05:00 +0800

In his book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey tells the story of a woodcutter who took a new job for a timber merchant. The woodcutter was determined to do his best, so when the employer presented him with an axe he went straight to work. The first day the woodcutter brought 18 trees to the boss. “Congratulations,” the boss said. “Keep it up!” With this motivational encouragement the cutter went out the next day with even more determination. However, at the end of the day he could only bring back 15 trees. The third day he worked harder still, yet try as he might only 10 trees could be felled. So it went; each succeeding day yielded fewer trees. “I must be losing my strength,” the woodcutter thought. He decided to approach his boss to apologize for his unexplained deteriorating output. “When was the last time you sharpened your axe?” the boss asked. The woodcutter stared dumbfounded. “Sharpen my axe! I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been too busy trying to cut trees!”

It is possible to be too busy to maintain your effectiveness. Whatever your personal situation, this might be the right time to ask yourself if it is time to “sharpen your axe.”

Windows 7 host + VMware Player + Linux Mint = best of both worlds

javakibblesnbits — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:05:20 +0800

javakibblesnbits

As a developer who prefers to develop on linux, but also uses Windows 7 for gaming and Adobe products to name a few, the past few years I’ve been running two computes, one for development purposes, one for the fun stuff. I’ve used VirtualBox and VMWare in the past but either my hardware was too [...]

Google SpreadSheet Scripts for Better Printing

Ajar Productions Blog — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:24:01 +0800

I’ve been using Google Docs more lately. Especially for spreadsheets. One thing that I noticed when trying to print is the effect of excess empty cells. When you choose File > Print in Google Docs, the system renders a PDF from the server and prompts you to save that PDF. If you have several empty [...]

Xcode “Valid Signing Identity not found” warning

Anuj Gakhar's Blog — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:19:30 +0800

I switched computers today to do some Xcode development. (Yes, I am trying to learn iOS development using Objective-C). I had everything setup on my MacBook Pro but I wanted to do Xcode development on the new iMac I got. My sample iPhone app that I am building was working fine in the simulator. Problems [...]

What Needs to Happen in TV industry Before We Start Caring

Android UI Design Patterns — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:06:00 +0800

Android UI Design Patterns

Seeing Environment Variables from Command Line in Windows 7

Banging My Head Against the Wall — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:33:06 +0800

Banging My Head Against the Wall

Whenever I get a new machine, I always end up installing Java. After the install, I like to bring up a command line and type “java -version” as a quick way to validate the installation. About half the time that … Continue reading →

(Guest blog) Risk: A four letter word for quality management?

Atlassian Blogs » Developer — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:26:42 +0800

Atlassian Blogs » Developer

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. The post is written by Bryce Day, CEO of Catch and the driving force behind the development of the highly successful QA management tool Enterprise Tester. Bryce has been involved in software testing since 1997. Testers tend to talk testing. That means they want to know things like: the number of test cases, how many have passed or failed, which tests are assigned to who, and how many times has and issue been tested and retested. While all of these numbers provide interesting statistical analysis, they don’t provide the real oil that the management team need. In fact there is only one real measure that means anything and it’s a four letter word – Risk!A question I hear frequently is “what are the key statistics you use to manage your testing?” Look on forums and discussion groups and you’ll get a number of differing views on how best to manage your testing. I, too, have an opinion, but unlike many others I like to focus on what I consider the basics. Forget everything else including all those fancy statistics, risk is the only thing that matters. Not convinced? Well, let me change your mind. Testing versus Quality All testers talk about testing their organisations product, but frankly who cares about testing? What they should be worried about is quality! Quality is very different to testing. Sure, you can validate a products quality through testing but how many of you are called Quality Managers instead of Test Managers? Or how often do you hear in a team “how much more testing have you got to go?” instead of “what’s the current quality of this build?” There’s no doubt about it. Measuring quality and understanding the quality profile of the product is the key to what we as testers do. To me as a manager, quality is a reflection on how much risk I’m prepared to take. For example, I would want to buy a high quality car because my risk appetite for a car breaking down is low, but I’m willing to purchase a low quality $2 toy from a discount store because my risk appetite is much higher that it will break. How many of you reading this have had a discussion with your project manager or management team about companies risk profile around a product release? I would guess very few. So forget the current way of thinking about testing and think of it instead from a risk perspective. How much is too much? The question now becomes ‘how much risk are we willing to take around this project/product/sprint?” Agile guys might say that they bake quality into the process. Sure, sounds great, so do they actually know the risk profile of the project? My bet is that they know about as much as the waterfall or iterative methodology teams, which isn’t much. The only [...]

Photoshop CS6 Video? New Content-Aware Move & Extend Features

ProDesignTools — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:23:08 +0800

We’ve seen a few sneak peeks already of what Adobe’s working on now in Photoshop – but this new one is the best to date… They don’t say which release these capabilities could make it in (or when), but presumably it’s Photoshop CS6. This new demonstration takes the much-praised concept of Content-Aware Fill that was [...] Related StoriesAdobe Photoshop CS6 – Another Look? More Sneak Peeks [VIDEO]When is Adobe CS6 Being Released, including Photoshop CS6?Adobe CS6 Upgrade Policy Changes Postponed! CS3 & CS4 on Track

Tell MS Word to stop pasting in styles

Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:22:39 +0800

This is something that probably everyone knows, and frankly, if I had taken the time to actually look it would have been obvious, but credit goes to Brian Rinaldi for letting me know about it. Do you hate it when you paste text into MS Word and it...

Üyeliksiz Görüntülü Sohbet Odaları

Sesli Chat | Sesli Sohbet | Kameralı Sohbet Sitesi - ALeyram.Com — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:14:06 +0800

Sesli Chat | Sesli Sohbet | Kameralı Sohbet Sitesi - ALeyram.Com

Sevgilinizle yada yeni tanıştığınız insanlar ile aşk şarkıları ve bilgisayarınızda olmayan müzikleri dinleyebilirsiniz. Üye olmadan gerçek dostlarınızı bulmak artık sizin elinizde. Sohbet odalarında arkadaşların seni bekliyor. ALeyRAM.CoM Görüntülü Sohbet Odaları.