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Feb 10

My First iPhone App: Walk or Bus

Now Available in the iTunes App Store!!  I’m very excited about this! Never created an iPhone App before, and this was a great experience. Here’s a bit about the new app. If you try it out, please do let me know how it goes!

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Do you ever wonder whether you’d be better off walking instead of taking the bus? This app will help you answer that question.

Fine tune your personal walking speed and your city’s bus speed for the most accurate Walk or Bus recommendation.

Measure by kilometers, miles, or by configurable city block sizes Receive helpful feedback: “at a brisk pace you will get there 4 minutes faster than the bus”

Ideation: Chris Mueller & Dana Boyd
Graphics: Trevor Brown
Coding: Peter Edstrom
Contact: walkorbus@edstrom.net
Twitter: @walkorbus

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Feb 10

I’d like that feature, and that one, and that one…

Marco considers input from his users but ultimately says:

“If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase producing a bloated, cluttered product full of features that hardly anyone used at the expense of everyday usability and polish on the features that matter. Like Microsoft Word. Or Firefox.

By listening too much to outside suggestions, I’d destroy the very reason why I’m receiving them.”

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Feb 10

Ketchup

UseKetchup.com looks like an interesting way to keep and track meeting notes. Love the simplicity of it. More about it here.

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24
Jan 10

Are you testing or checking?

Vikas Hazrati posts an interesting thought about testing vs. checking at InfoQ:

“Checking is something that we do with the motivation of confirming existing beliefs. [...] Testing is something that we do with the motivation of finding new information.”

So when you “test” your software, are you really testing? Or are you just checking?

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Dec 09

About that functional spec…

David Heinemeier Hansson’s perspective:

“I think of functional spec as one of the worst inflictions that has ever happened to the software development world. I think functional specs are a relic of a time when building features was a very, very hard and long process and you had to do all of this upfront planning because once you wrote anything in software, it was pretty much impossible to change it. I don’t think that functional specs is a technique that’s any longer relevant.”

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