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Ideas and execution: The power of teams

nverdo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:11:14 +0000

I came across an interesting post which covers a few interesting aspects of quality, teams, ideas and execution in software development.

Some interesting quotes:

“This is all your app is: a collection of tiny details.”

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they’ll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they’ll fix it. Or they’ll throw it away and come up with something else.

The post also contains a link to a youtube video where Ed Catmull from Pixar explains how they learned, through trial and error, to build teams that can execute.

Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small

The entire post can be found here:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/01/cultivate-teams-not-ideas.html

How to Verify Technorati Claim Code?

nverdo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:09:43 +0000

I you are registed with technorati and want to claim your blog, scroll down to the page and proceed to claim your blog. Enter the URL of your blog and click on “Claim this blog” to continue. Click on the checkbox and select “Include this blog in Technorati’s Blog Finder” then fill in the keywords for your blog inside the tags box. Once you are done, click on “Save Changes” and then get the claim code. You can copy the code and paste it in your sidebar or footer.

However, if you are like me who missed this step, you can still go back to your profile page, click on the “Check Claim” and copy the code which look something like this ”9ZSG2SR9GK3Q”. Paste this code in a new post such as this post then publish it. Go back and click on “Verify this URL” and you are almost done. Double check your email, if this is successful, you will receive an email with the following message.

This is an automatically-generated email.

Thank you for submitting your blog claim on Technorati. We have successfully crawled your blog and found the claim token, and your claim is now awaiting review.

Check back on Technorati after few days to see if your blog is being listed. Good Luck!

Palm Pre Emulator – 1 minute install

nverdo — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:31 +0000

This is how all mobile device manufacturers should make their mobile OS’s available.It was (less than) a 1 minute install to get it up and running. Ok it was easy since I already had VirtualBox, but compared to the nightmare called Maemo (still haven’t got it up and running), it was a stroll in my own backyard.

It makes sense for device manufacturers to deliver proper tools for the development community, since they all have app stores they want to monetize. This is one of the reasons I think not many developers will jump on the maemo bandwagon just yet, their SDK right out sucks. Not like any developer would want to have their app in the Nokia OVI store anyway.

Familiar though Funny Windows 7 vs Mac add from Apple

nverdo — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:45:35 +0000

It can’t beat the similar Wii vs Playstation ad though