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1/30/2010

Lies and Marketing

Filed under:General, Technology, Web Design— arlen@ 11:57 pm

Lee Brimelow made this wonderful post ridiculing the iPad’s lack of flash. Only one problem with it.

It’s a lie.

And that’s a problem. Apparently, he made those wonderful claims of his without ever once checking the reality of them. Most of those sites that supposedly don’t show anything, actually do. As this set of screen captures shows.
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1/13/2010

Why don’t they test?

Filed under:General, Technology— arlen@ 12:32 pm

I’ve heard from some more developers on the subject of testing, who claim they aren’t allowed to do unit testing because there isn’t time. I’m not blaming the developers here, but their management for being just plain stupid. An elementary analysis of the question proves just how wrongheaded they are.

The first question to ask is do they test the software at all before they supply it to the customer. It’s possible they don’t, in which case they have a point that testing will take more time, and my only advice, to both the developers there and to their customers, is “Run Away!” It’s irresponsible and unprofessional to make people pay for untested software.
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