Archive for September, 2008

  • Manual User Testing Has Died. Long Live Selenium!

    Manual User Testing Has Died. Long Live Selenium!

    When developing web applications, one must be very careful with the quality of the tool that is going to be released. Most users will only give you one chance to introduce a new feature. If it doesn’t work well it will be very, very...

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  • The Future of the Voice Over Industry

    The Future of the Voice Over Industry

    The voice over industry and the lodging industry have little in common. One of the few things they share is that both have a highly fragmented offer and demand: lots of buyers and lots of sellers. Such fragmentation is ideal for online marketplaces such as...

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  • All YOUR base are belong to MY?

    All YOUR base are belong to MY?

    When designing a page, when should you use “my” (as in “My Password”) and when should you use “your” (as in “Your Account”)? I have been designing user interfaces for almost a decade already, but only today I realized how ignorant I was in...

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  • Maestro applies his magic to Mastrropiero

    Maestro applies his magic to Mastrropiero

    During the previous weekend Maestro finished working on the wireframes and design (including HTML and CSSs) of the Mastrropiero scope. This scope is in charge of handling the visible functionality that will allow visitors to perform real-time searches at LetMeGo. Not surprisingly, Maestro did great...

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  • It feels like meeting an ex-girlfriend you have not seen in years

    It feels like meeting an ex-girlfriend you have not seen in years

    That is the best explanation I could come up with when telling my team how I felt when coding, once again, after four years of not doing so. Honestly, I don’t remember when was the first time I coded, nor the computer I used. It...

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