Category Archives: best-practices

YAGNI, Apple, and iPod

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Josh Peters

As we all know, Apple recently introduced iPad to the world. Regardless of what you think about the device, I find myself really interested in the brief glimpses it offers about how Apple has been running its business.

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Gnutella and Marine 1

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Josh Peters

In case you missed it, a contractor’s laptop allowed secret plans of the new presidential helicopter to fall into foreign hands.

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Context-driven testing

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Josh Peters

Google’s Testing Blog introduced me to a presentation on Context-Driven Test Automation by Pete Schnieder of F5 Networks. It’s a good presentation that discusses some of the different perspectives with regards to unit testing and how to best involve those … Continue reading →

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On Bailouts and My Country’s Woes

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Josh Peters

Mitt Romney wrote an interesting op. ed. piece calling for GM et. al to be allowed to fail. A few days later, A VP from GM responded. If you’ve not yet read these, take a few minutes to do so.

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Cross-Site Request Forgeries: what users need to know

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Josh Peters

There’s been a lot of talk about this new category of vulnerability: Cross-Site Request Forgeries (i.e. “CSRF”).  Here’s a quick rundown of what they are and why they’re scary: operations such as “send an email,” “buy some stock,” or “donate … Continue reading →

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Gmail’s shortcut keys rock!

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Josh Peters

I’ve been playing more and more with using the keyboard shortcuts in Gmail. “How do you find out about them?” you ask. Just type “?” to bring up a “heads-up display” with a list of shortcuts. Being a fan of … Continue reading →

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Moving On To More Important Matters

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Josh Peters

Last night I had a “conversation” with some of my in-laws about politics. Bad idea considering I am suffering from a sinus infection and generally feel miserable but I have to share a tidbit. An unnamed cousin of mine (who’s … Continue reading →

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WAI-ARIA dynamic attributes?

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Josh Peters

I’ve got a question for the WAI-ARIA folks out there: can I add the attributes dynamically? I’m sure the best case is to set the attributes on the server, but let’s say I’ve got a JSP tag library that isn’t … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome: Two Things I Like

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Josh Peters

Yesterday Google’s browser Chrome hit the ‘net (at least, the Windows, x86-based ‘net). Initially I’m very happy with it. The UI is a joy to use. It accomplishes everything that the IE team seemed to try with IE7, only without … Continue reading →

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Opt-Out of Google Tracking Cookies

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Josh Peters

Steps to opt-out: visit Google’s Privacy Ads page Click on the Opt Out button Now your browser has a cookie that won’t be connected to your Google account for tracking ads.

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