Author: Ian Alderson

Yesterday an official from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was quoted in an article on InfoWorld titled "W3C: Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites" as saying: "The problem we're facing right now ...Read More

I've just read a great tweet from @KentBeck that provides an interesting solution for something that I have always struggled with. if you don't have a good name for it, give it a bad name. ...Read More

There seem to be a number of people who still have the impression that User Experience (UX) is some divine attribute that is miraculously bestowed upon a few anointed applications. Other applications, they say, have no UX. There is also a belief that ...Read More

At Caplin we have been using various UI widgets from Ext JS (available from the renamed Sencha company) within Caplin Trader for a couple of years.The Ext JS widgets that we have used have been an excellent complement to ...Read More

Yesterday there were a couple of important posts that have reignited the fire under the HTML5 vs Flash debate. The first was Thoughts On Flash from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The second was the riposte from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, ...Read More

As I mentioned in part I of this series, Adoption of Agile at Caplin, when we first started following an agile methodology (in our case Scrum) in February 2005 we were desperate to implement it successfully and wanted to adhere to ...Read More

Back in January 2005 I had been married for a month and was looking forward to taking a belated honeymoon in March. As you would expect, these were significant life events, however little did I realise that something of a similar ...Read More

Last week several of my colleagues and I watched a Google Tech Talk on Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development, presented by Dave Astels way back in March 2006.Although four years can seem like an eternity within software ...Read More

A few weeks ago a colleague sent through a link to this blog by Paddy Donnelly (warning, this link carries a parent advisory sticker) in which he expresses his frustration with web sites littered with spelling mistakes. I also find ...Read More

Last week I blogged about how an estimate is not a guarantee. A small, but important, omission from that post was the distinction between an accurate estimate and a precise estimate. Frequently accuracy and precision seem to ...Read More