Ben Northrop wrote to complain that story points are not accurate. They don't (always) map linearly to hours spent, so adding up story points over a large project won't accurately give hours for the project. In the spirit of expressing controversial opinions, I will agree, and explain why I think …
Posted Thu 30 August 2012 by mcherm in Programming
Suppose you wanted to build a tool for anonymously capturing the websites that a user visited and keeping a record of the public sites while keeping the users completely anonymous so their browsing history could not be determined. One of the most difficult challenges would be finding a way to …
Posted Mon 12 March 2012 by mcherm in Programming
Suppose you were building a tool integrated with web browsers to anonymously capture the (public) websites that a user visited and store them to a P2P network shared by the users of this tool. What would the requirements be for this storage P2P network?
There are many different types of …
Posted Sat 10 March 2012 by mcherm in Programming
Suppose you were building a tool for anonymously capture the (public) websites that a user visited. What would the UI requirements be?
The basic experience would be a perfectly normal browsing experience: users would launch their favorite web browser normally, would browse around the web normally and everything would "just …
Posted Mon 05 March 2012 by mcherm in Programming
Do you remember Google Web Accelerator? The idea was that you downloaded all your pages through Google's servers. For content that was static, Google could just load it once, then cache it and serve up the same page to every user. The advantage to the user was that they got …
Posted Sun 04 March 2012 by mcherm in Programming