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musings on information design and architecture
From Joey Adams:
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.
Every now and then you’re really grateful OSX is essentially Unix with a smiley face. Since that allows you to easily get under the hood for those “should be simple” tasks.
For this one, I needed to produce a list of files within a collection of folders which, for demonstration purposes, we’ll call media files.
Recursive [...]
From Arthur Bloch:
If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.
From Robert Brault:
A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.
From unknown:
QA didn’t break anything, it was broken when we got it.
Love the way this simply quote re-directs criticism of QA when bugs are uncovered.
From Kent Beck, quoted at 37 Signals:
By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback.
From Seth Godwin:
If you’re getting feedback, realize that the person must care a lot to have sent it.
I’m a firm believer that one of the most effective ways to learn is to study mistakes, yours or other peoples. Which is why I used to live at Web pages that suck when first starting out in developing web content.
Just come across a similar, humoured, approach to usability in the Bad Usability Calendar. [...]
From an unknown source, but referenced in university notes for an agile course:
Ready, fire, aim (the fast approach to software development).
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim … (the slow approach to software development).
From The Rapture of the Deep, by Michael Zinsley:
An adventure is never fun while it’s happening.