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Archives for February 2005

Whew, upgrade to WP1.5 completed!

17-Feb-2005 By Jim

A few minor plug-in related things to finish up, but mostly it’s done… four hours later. Not bad, I guess, considering all the plugins and other customizations I have installed. Not a lot of swearing at the computer either which is a pretty good measure of degree of difficulty/annoyance in the process. :) Of course, if you take WordPress’ word for it, it’s a 5-minute deal — sure, if you’re using nothing but what comes in the “box”, as it were, and, really, how many people are doing that? I know of a few; and by a few I mean “can count on one hand.”

Anyway, if ya notice anything clearly broken please post a comment on this article (hopefully SpamKarma will let you).

Speaking of comment spam: I apologize ahead of time but I’ve had to make it a requirement that all comment posters register and be logged-in in order for a comment post to be accepted. I thought the spamming was bad before but in the last three days there’s been so much (attempted) comment-spam posting that the machine is overall much slower to respond to anything. :(

Filed Under: General

Spiral learning

13-Feb-2005 By Jim

Iterations

Spirals show up everywhere from fractals to nautilus shells. Software developers know the spiral as iterative development–a model in stark (positive) contrast to the old linear waterfall model.

One huge problem with the waterfall model is that in its traditional form, it’s not based in reality. It assumes that it’s entirely possible for each stage to be done perfectly (and permanently) and then thrown over the fence (or cubicle wall) to the next group in the system. Nice theory, that. The guys doing the requirements finish their job and then, hey, they might as well all go on vacation. Their work is done. And so on down the line until the product is delivered to the users. The name itself (waterfall) describes the key limiting characteristic of the waterfall model–it’s one way only. Water doesn’t go back up.

User experience designers (especially with games) often use a spiral model to keep cycling the user through stages of interest/motivation, engagement, and payoff (I described the user experience spiral headrush.typepad.com…

Filed Under: blogosphere

Mental Note #66183

10-Feb-2005 By Jim

Do not use the Publish button when writing a private post. It over-rides the ‘Private’ radio button without warning. :P

Filed Under: General

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