Never Pay For Application Development Services Again

Posted by posted by Francis @ 11/21/2006 05:11:00 PM

Oh man... I've been on the receiving end of this strategy a couple of times. Company calls to get a quote on development with a sketchy requirement. We provide a quote and they string us along refining the requirement until we decide to tell them we're not interested.

They they take the detailed quote and use it as a requirement to get pricing from an Indian firm... Neat.

Never Pay For Application Development Services Again

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Tools to help with automated testing and test cases

Posted by posted by Francis @ 11/14/2006 01:00:00 PM

Today, I just surfaced from a rather important feature release in our largest projects. It was a really cool feature and went relatively smoothly. In the end, everyone pitched-in for the testing and it made me think about two tools that people have recommended to me but that I haven't had the time to test.

STAF (Software Testing Automation Framework)

And

QATraq (test case management software)

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A look at how the new Office 2007 UI came to be

Posted by posted by Francis @ 11/14/2006 10:57:00 AM

In this blog, there is a boatload of information about the decisions taken by the UI team at Microsoft when they redesigned the user interface for the new office suite.

Hours of good reading ahead.

Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : The Office 2007 UI Bible

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