nirav May 19th, 2007
If you are working on a software project, usability testing (and understanding it in the first place) is very important. From 24 Ways:
Natalie Downe describes a simple approach to usability testing for those of us working to tight timescales or budgets. That’d be nearly all of us then. Learn how to make the most of your available user testing time, and perhaps this year you’ll not end up quizzing auntie as she stuffs her face with turkey.
Impress your friends with your schedule-friendly user testing
nirav February 20th, 2007
Read a note on Joel On Software about Language Wars. Someone asked him about the language to choose for his next project. And Joel mentions (on the language war):
These debates are enormously fun and a total and utter waste of time, because the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms (C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python) that are all equally likely to make you successful, an infinity of platforms where you’re pretty much guaranteed to fail spectacularly when it’s too late to change anything (Lisp, ISAPI DLLs written in C, Perl), and a handful of platforms where The Jury Is Not In, So Why Take The Risk When Your Job Is On The Line? (Ruby on Rails).
What interested me, was the mention of PHP there, and the significance of it. We have been working with PHP for 8 years, and it has grown tremendously. It’s now even preferred language for big enterprises. Makes me proud to have taken the PHP route for Magnet! As it is, after working on and managing projects in so many technologies, PHP is still my number one choice for programming!