That means you can have a QA repository that lets the QA team try out the code. If it works, the QA team can push it up to the central repository, meaning, the central repository always has solid, tested code. And it works!
If you’ve ever worked on a large, buggy, enterprise-level Operations stack, you can understand why I just went a little bit in my pants.
For the record, this article is 10 years old and has been read and discussed so many times already. It is, however, the first link to come up when one googles “rewrite or refactor“, something I am currently asking myself towards a new business project I am working on.
“The customer really isn’t always right. We believe we have the expertise to bring the best product. We don’t randomly put these ingredients together. We spend the time to test these and try them”
via NYTimes.com
“Sir, don’t panic, but one of your kidneys has been harvested”
via Made To Stick
“scan your site and look for any reference to “I” or “we.” Any information that focuses on you or your company has to go. Then, replace it with information that helps the customer identify the problem that you can solve”
good advice. stop thinking about who you are and start thinking about the problems you solve
The Case Against Vertical Navigation – Smashing Magazine
A lot to read and it’s worth it, but the general nutshell:
I don’t know how this translates when dealing with large corporate clients that feel the need to put everything on their website. What is most likely required would be a strong conversation explaining why that website doesn’t need the 20 page history of the company in it’s own section five levels deep in the Information Architecture. However, this argument definitely lends itself well to the concept of Building Small Things.
an article on packet sniffing. this should be a reminder, unless you’re using SSL (HTTPS), or you’re tunneling traffic through an SSH connection, your data is not secure
Packet Sniffing on Mac OS X with Wireshark – dylanedwards.com.
[update] – turns out, the software linked to (wireshark) is prone to its own security holes: http://wiki.wireshark.org/Security
Got it in my head that I want my own wax seal. It’s not so much that I’m involved in hand-written correspondence so vital that its recipient must know they are the first and only to read said correspondence. I simply desire a wax seal, perhaps a signet ring. I can envision the reams of paper I will go through, applying wax seals to the tri-folded decree and handing them to my family with notes like, “should I cook dinner tonight?” or “how about chicken?” and “do you mind if I go out for a drink with a friend?”. “Don’t forget, I have a neighborhood association meeting tomorrow”.
Anyhoo, there are places to buy these things, as there are places to buy anything your head can imagine, I would think. However, as this is the internet, people tend to do things themselves
Ways to make a wax seal:
clay and a pirate ring (arrrr!)
you might prefer a signet ring
you might get distracted and make a green lantern ring instead
or, hell, you might just make an platinum engagement ring because you’re a badass.
Can’t start a business only eating a Tombstone pizza every day
Great article on inkling that can probably be summed up best with the ubiquitious, “baby steps, baby steps”
This completely hit home for me, because I’m guilty of taking an idea and blowing it so far out of scope that I’ll never be able to handle it myself (I also have issues with letting go and delegating, so that doesn’t help either)