Software testing is one of the areas of SOA that is not discussed a great deal. There is an assumption that, with SOA, software testing procedures don’t need to change much. Unfortunately it isn’t so. Testing procedures will need to change and there are issues that need to be thought through.
This becomes clear if we [...]

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Cuil is, for want of a convenient acronym, YASEATEG, which stands for Yet Another Search Engine Aiming To Eat Google.  Google has over 60% of the search market, Yahoo! has less than half that and Microsoft is about a fifth of Google. If anyone could find a way to eat Google, then clearly there’s a [...]

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You may not know who Edward Tufte is, although he’s relatively well known and deservedly so, because he is an expert in visual design for information communication. I have a couple of his books (Visual Explanations and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information) and, imho, they are definitive references on presentation. If only our industry [...]

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It’s rare that a chain letter arrives that I feel inclined to pass on, but “the girl with the apple” is an exception. I have not passed it on, I’m just going to blog it. Whether the story is true or not, I don’t know. Nevertheless it is worth telling…

A Girl with an Apple
August 1942. [...]

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The video below was the winner of the NFB Online Competition, Cannes 2008. It’s entitled Historia de un Letrero (The Story of a Sign) although I’d personally be inclined to retitle it “the power of marketing”. It was also named best short film in the Festival Internacional de Cine en Corto and won the Hispanoamerican [...]

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