links for 2008-01-23
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IE team introduces their new meta browser targeting tag
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“I’d like to make one thing absolutely clear. You might infer from A List Apart or from the IEBlog that there was collaboration between the Web Standards Project and Microsoft on this. That is not the case. There was collaboration between some members .
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“Ramaze is a simple, light, and modular open-source web-framework written in Ruby, similar in spirit to Rails, Camping and merb.”
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“The argument for this tag is actually the number one argument against this tag: …”
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“Jaxer offers a unified development model, in which the developer can continue to use exactly the same well-known paradigms from the client — JavaScript, the HTML DOM, and CSS — on the server, with no other server-side technologies.”
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“Halcyon is a JSON Web App Server Framework built on Rack for speed and light weight.”
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link to goes to a PDF.
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“Wisteria is an extremely fast event based web framework for Ruby, designed specifically for writing APIs (i.e. RESTful backends) and handling file uploads.”
Productivity vs. quality
Phil Haack linked to an interesting paper which intended to provide evidence that Test Driven Development increases the overall quality and productivity of developers on a given project.
I’m not going to debate the merits of TDD right now, did enough of that on Twitter last night 
, but I did notice something interesting that I hope the group conducting the test follows up.
It’s in a PDF so I can’t quite link to the appropriate charts, but they are regression charts on page 10 and 11. One compares quality to # of tests written and the other compares productivity to # of tests written. (I’m summarizing). The interesting part to me was that there were some of the participants in the TL (test last) group that scored higher than some of the TF(Test First) group members. In fact, if I’m interpreting that chart correctly, the highest quality code was written by members of the TL group.
The second chart appeared to show that the overall productivity for ALL group members was low, with the exception of a couple of members who fell way outside of the C.I.
I also liked that it appeared that the regression lines were hand-drawn on after the fact.
Seth Godin Action Figure, Marketing Guru – Archie McPhee
Seth Godin Action Figure, Marketing Guru – Archie McPhee: “”
Nuff’ said.
links for 2008-01-18
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Interesting idea. Write a .NET wrapper for launching AIR apps and use it as a proxy between AIR and the OS.
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