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How to make community members stick at djst’s nest

by karlcow

an interesting conclusion about how to turn new and casual contributors into long-time community members: the key is to distribute ownership.

To wrap up, there were several things that motivated me to stay active in the Mozilla community: * A belief in the mission of the project — to create a web browser that supports and promotes the use of open standards * An interest in the technology — initially with the Gecko logo as my hook * The feeling of belonging in a community of people with similar interests * The desire to give something back to a project that gave (and still gives) me the best browser in the world for free * The experiences gained by managing a website — HTML, CSS, server configurations, and perhaps most importantly, the English language * The recognition and respect from Mozilla project members for my contributions * The pride of being responsible for an important piece of the project

01 July 2009

What is Unit Testing?

by ms_michel
Un article qui explique ce que sont les tests unitaires et pourquoi il faut les utiliser.

Gridshore » How WTF’s improve code quality awareness

by karlcow

It is very important to report the WTF to the developer who produced the code. Subversions “annotate” or “blame” function provides a means to blame someone for the existence of a specific piece of code. The best way to report this back is through an informative and educational discussion, where everyone could be involved. The factoring should preferably be done by the developer responsible for the code, perhaps with the assistance of the developer who reviewed it. As a result, quality awareness will have improved within the development team.

Flickr: Add a weblog

by oqdbpo
Tweet your Flickr photos and video. Here's how to set it up: 1. Go to Twitter to authorize tweets from your Flickr account. 2. Once authorized you'll automatically be sent back to Flickr, and we'll show how to tweet to your heart's content.

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30 June 2009

Re: vCard RDF merge.... from Toby Inkster on 2009-06-30 (www-archive@w3.org from June 2009)

by karlcow

A while back I wrote a little RDF vocab that extended the 2006 vCard vocab. It introduces a few extra terms which I thought were useful, mostly taken from the vCard 4.0 drafts at the time. e.g. a "lang" property to indicate languages spoken by the person represented. One other thing it has though is a more vCard-like way of representing telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.

25 June 2009

upscale typography » Blog Archive » Drawing with Type

by sbrothier
This is one of the newest apps for the Apple iphone. The concept is very simple. Drawing with letters. The first release came out late May, but the project started back in 2005 as an online project for the web. You simply type a sentence or word and then you start drawing. You may save it, email it or upload it to the typedrawing flickr group. The new 1.2 update goes one step further. Now you can set colors, typeface, text size, and undo & redo. This is the type of application that makes you spend many creative hours with your iphone or ipod touch.

23 June 2009

Software QA and Testing Resource Center (en)

by balluche & 2 others
Site en anglais sur la qualité logicielle avec une liste impressionnante d'outils de tests. Il y a des FAQ pour comprendre ce qu'est un processus de qualité logicielle.

Adactio: Journal—DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (Without Calling In a Pro)

by karlcow

Experiment and iterate. This is the web; you can be nimble. Risk is okay as long as you are always testing. Here’s the Iridesco process for a new feature:

1. Sketch

2. Photoshop

3. Test

4. Static HTML prototype

5. Test again

6. Working prototype

7. Test again

8. Tweak

9. Launch quietly

10. Get Feedback

11. Tweak

12. Get Feedback

13. Tweak

14. Get Feedback

15. Tweak…

Iterate constantly. You need a culture of experimentation.

21 June 2009

soapUI - the Web Service, SOA and SOAP Testing Tool

by Elryk & 3 others
Outil de tests de service web destiné aux développeurs et aux testeurs. Il offre un client standalone Java Swing GUI, des outils en ligne de commande et des plugins IDE pour Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA et NetBeans.

19 June 2009

scalacheck - Google Code

by jpcaruana
ScalaCheck is a powerful tool for automatic unit testing of Scala and Java programs. It features automatic test case generation and minimization of failing test cases. ScalaCheck started out as a Scala port of the Haskell library QuickCheck, and has since evolved and been extended with features not found in Haskell QuickCheck.

ScalaTest

by jpcaruana
ScalaTest is a free, open-source testing tool for Scala and Java programmers. It is written in Scala, and enables you to write tests in Scala to test either Scala or Java code. It is released under the Apache 2.0 open source license.

How To Configure Your Router for Gaming

by alamat (via)
Playing games over the Internet is a lot easier than it used to be. Nobody wants to go back to the days of modem initialization strings, manually entering IP addresses, and getting disconnected whenever someone else picked up the phone

17 June 2009

Alkaline: Windows browsers on your Mac

by alamat (via)
Web developers who spend hours testing sites and email newsletters in Windows browsers and clients will be aware of web-based tools, such as Litmus, which automate much of the task.

15 June 2009

HubLog: Annotation of Scientific Articles

by parmentierf
I made a web-based interface for curating the results of entity extraction from scientific papers. It converts XML files to text, passes the text through machine annotators, lets curators add/delete/modify the annotations, then splices the annotations back into the original XML file.

13 June 2009

John Mann Photography

by karlcow

Folded in Place furthers the abstraction once offered by landscape photography by removing the place itself and replacing it with a mapped construction. This method leads the viewer to re-imagine the spectacle of the foreign lands and explore the abstraction of place offered by photography. The combination of still-life constructions and the maps’ reference to large and distant lands examines the paradox of known and unknown geographies offered by the photographic image. In this manner, Folded in Place turns the abstract representation of the map back into a physical landscape using photography to look at the map as a geography of its own.

11 June 2009

Baekdal Le Mans 24 Hours LIVE Tracker |

by rax262 (via)
Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal24hours on twitter) has been providing this app for a few years now. No skipping around to multiple websites, just click the banner above, kick back and enjoy. Since they are 6hrs ahead of us (EST) its a great way to keep up during the day if you’re at work! And, the webcam tracker is now also available for download here: http://bit.ly/ujHTd (But the webcams are not online until Saturday)

Siege

by rodo
Siege is an http regression testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure the performance of their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It allows the user hit a web server with a configurable number of concurrent simulated users. Those users place the webserver "under siege."

Shiretoko Alpha 1 Release Notes

by tadeufilippini (via)
Shiretoko Alpha 1 is an early developer milestone for the next version of Firefox that is being built on top of Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.1 layout engine, Shiretoko Alpha 1 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Shiretoko Alpha 1.

walking papers lives (tecznotes)

by karlcow

OpenStreetMap, the wiki-style map of the world that anyone can edit, is in need of a new way to add content. I've been working on a way to "round trip" map data through paper, to make it easier to perform the kinds of eyes-on-the-street edits that OSM needs now the most, as well as distributing the load by making it possible for legible, easy notes to be shared and turned into real geographical data.

Walking Papers is a working service that implements this paper idea, based on initial technical experimentation from back in February.

10 June 2009

Use It Better™

by dav & 2 others
Online tool for testing and analysing user experience and usability on flash websites

Use It Better™

by gregg & 2 others
Online tool for testing and analysing user experience and usability on flash websites

09 June 2009

08 June 2009

Walking Papers

by philippej & 2 others (via)
"Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in and help OpenStreetMap improve its coverage of local points of interests and street detail." Excellent et prometteur...

06 June 2009

Selenium

by Fiber_Optic & 1 other
Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms.

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