Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Jott.com

I'm really starting to get into Jott. One thing I hate doing is taking notes or action items. Now with my iPhone I use Jott. I can call into jott and publish a list for myself, or I can just record a list on my iPhone. I can also post to my twitter feed as well as my blog, just be calling in and they record what I want to say. What an amazing use of voice to text recognition.

They also have a desktop app called Jott express so you can push notes from your desktop while offline. YEA.

Thanks Jott.com

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

I'd hate to be that programmer

So, why is QA and high volume testing crucial to deployment of an application?

Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes


The long story is here. The short story, is that a programmer had a logic issue with their code, and when there were high volumes of votes coming in, it would "lose" some of them. So 1+1+1 would sometimes equal 1 vote instead of 3.

So the next time management asks, do we have to do volume and load testing? Refer to this story and ask them if they want to make front page news?