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Google Calls for a Joint Effort to Speed Up the Internet
Submitted by corey@goldb.org (Corey Goldberg) on Wed, 24/06/2009 - 14:29.
check out:
http://code.google.com/speed/
writeup here:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/Google-Speed-Up-the-Internet
"Google has launched a web site in an attempt to find ways and push the speed up process of the entire Internet. Google shares research data, web site speed optimization tutorials, recorded presentations on performance, links to lots of performance optimization tools, and a discussion group inviting everyone to share ideas on how to make the web faster."
Pylot is listed in the downloads section!
Putting the S in ARxTA
Submitted by Brian Marick on Wed, 24/06/2009 - 18:17.Artisanal Retro-futurism crossed with Team-scale Anarcho-syndicalism seems a hit. I made upward of 400 stickers, and I have only a handful left. There’s been talk on Twitter about other types of Agile conferences, so let me make a rough proposal for a conference that focuses on solidarity and syndicalism and self-help.There would be four parts [...]
The plague of repetitiveness
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (James Whittaker) on Wed, 24/06/2009 - 23:23.By James A. Whittaker
Let me be clear that these plague posts are specifically aimed at pointing out problems in testing. I'll get around to the lore and the solutions afterward. But keep up the debate in the comments, that's what this blog is all about.
The plague of repetitiveness
If aimlessness is the result of ‘just doing it’ then repetitiveness is the result of ‘just doing it some more.’ Pass after pass, build after build, sprint after sprint, version after version we test our product. Developers perform reviews, write unit tests and run static analyzers. But we have little insight into this effort and can't take credit for it. Developers test but then we retest. We can’t assume anything about what they did so we retest everything. As our product grows in features and bug fixes get applied, we continue our testing. It isn’t long until new tests become old tests and all of them eventually become stale.