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Features

  • HTML5: Accessibility For All
    by Brian Hogan
    One in every ten people in the world has some sort of disabiliy. That’s 650 million potential users of your software, and 650 million people you should think about when developing web sites.
  • What Agile Is Not
    by Jeff Langr, Tim Ottinger
    Jeff and Tim shuffle the Agile deck and come up with some jokers.
  • Good Code Tells the Truth
    by Hew Wolff
    Your editor’s favorite characterization of good writing is from Rust Hills, former fiction editor of Esquire magazine: “clarity of perception and expression.” Hew Wolff is talking about something similar here when he characterizes good code as truthful.
  • When Did That Happen?
    by Dan Wohlbruck
    This month marks the 149th anniversary of the beginning of electronic messaging.
  • Your Halloween Costume
    by Jeremy Bingham
    Courtesy of the Chinese and Goodwill, Jeremy offers you this 2010 Halloween costume.

Departments

  • Up Front
    by Michael Swaine
    The Easter Eggs of October
  • Choice Bits
    It was a dark and stormy night, and I shuddered with eldritch dread to think that somewhere out there novels were being written on Twitter.
  • Guru Meditation
    by Andy Hunt
    “Oh I’ll Remember That.” No, actually, you won’t.
  • Way of the Agile Warrior
    by Jonathan Rasmusson
    It starts out so hopefully. As you begin the project, you and your team are all on the same page. Or so it seems. Then you start actually building, and you realize that you all had something different in mind. Has it happened to you?
  • The Quiz
    by Michael Swaine
    A monthly diversion at least peripherally related to programming.
  • Calendar
    Jared Richardson, author of Ship It!, will talk about “The Value of Value Story Cards” at Agile Development Practices East in Orlando, FL in November. Also, Linux turns 19. And other items for your calendar.
  • Shady Illuminations
    by John Shade
    Our resident curmudgeon taps into the mind of Linus Torvalds and finds a kindred spirit.

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