Soapbox: A Case Against Foobar

I would like to see the end of “foobar” in code examples.
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Know What You Know

“80% of all usability issues are ‘duh’ issues.”

Matthew Lamb (@SFDCMatt) – via @klrichardson

Are ‘duh’ issues ruining your product?  Do you even know about the ‘duh’ issues in your product?  If you are not usability testing your site with real users you are likely missing a lot of easy things that you could fix.

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The Second Way To Skin A Cat

You know the season of a t.v. show when you realize that they’ve run out of plots? One of the most common signs is when the characters start reversing roles. Suddenly Sylar is a good guy, or Dharma stops being a hippie and Greg stops being a Republican. You know the gig is up when that happens.

This week I’m left wondering if a software company is “done” when it starts releasing products that compete with itself. Google has had me a bit confused with Chrome OS and Android for a while. But this week things hit closer to home for me when the makers of FogBugz, a project management tool, released Trello, a project “organization” tool.

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The Baylor Shakedown

In the standoff between Texas A&M, Baylor, the SEC, and Oklahoma, the interesting question is “How much money is it going to take?”

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