:pseudo-element{} » programming http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:34:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Betas http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/2009/03/30/betas/ http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/2009/03/30/betas/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:35:56 +0000 Laurence http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/?p=43 At work I’ve discovered the Scrum management technique. ( If you have no idea what it is, go read the article right away.) I personally find it pretty awesome. At first everything looks so obvious because it’s based on common sense, and yet if you read a lot about it you realize how drastically different it is from traditional “project manager” philosophy. I’m mentioning it because Scrum is used to work applications in incrementations of valid working code. So that after each version, everything that is there works. You simply don’t have all the features yet. And so you could say that each release is a final release as opposed to an alpha -> beta ->final chain of releases. 

At the same time the two web applications I use the most, gMail and Ravelry, have both been open to the public and in beta for a while now, and they don’t look like they will ever get out of beta. It looks like it’s become the “in” thing to do… 

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Maybe it’s a symptom of society where nothing is ever good enough and 15 years old girls want to get plastic surgery!

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