I've been pondering this series of polls I've been running and wrote the following paragraph:

Standing in opposition for this need for high productivity is risk: risk of major delay, risk of a show-stopping technical incompatibility, risk of embracing a tool or technique that is reaching the end of its …

I've been finding myself hitting the "focused test" option in my IDE and have wondered if I should feel guilty. What do you think? Here's a poll asking "How often do you run the complete test suite?"

Jeff "Coding Horror" Atwood has fingered a particular sore spot for me in Web Development as Tag Soup:

"Tag soup" is his name for the ~~spaghetti~~perfectly valid stuff that inevitably occurs in server-side, tag-based languages. A typically ~~hideous~~perfectly valid example he shows is:

 <h1>Archive for {{ year }}</h1 …

Along the lines of my recent poll on practices during project initialization, here's a poll on some common practices used during software development construction. Which of these have you found to be important for success? What have I missed?

ORA would have us believe that developer interest in the iPhone lags behind developer interest in Android or Symbian. I am skeptical

(Via O'Reilly Radar.)

What's especially amusing about recovery of Apple I's BASIC is that it was done via an MP3 file, which, as you know, is a lossy compression scheme.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

I have created a short poll at Zoho on practices that can be done very early in a project's lifecycle, before a vision is really established. What do you think? What did I miss?

This is from MarsEdit. Do I have to add markup tags manually?

It appears that I have to add markup manually

I've been busier than some metaphorical thing in some metaphorical place where things are really busy.

Here are some recent articles I've written:

Drag .Net -- Home Security Automation

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