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Cuando las herramientas no son claras, empieza a pasar esto. No es que la culpa igual sea de sólo una de las partes, tanto las herramientas como los usuarios que no leen cómo usarlas.
Un largo tema para debatir.

Do some people confuse public Buzz messages with private email conversations? I don’t know, but some of the following conversations I found using Gmail’s Buzz search sounded a bit odd. One of the conversation, for instance, was by a person who only follows one person and only has one follower. Then again, how would this misunderstanding come about, if that’s the case, as Buzz says “Public on the web” next to the Post button, and doesn’t offer a field to address only a single person? Gmail puts private emails and public buzz messages in one app, one click away in the interface… is that enough to trigger misunderstandings? I’ve obfuscated some parts in these screenshots.

Puede leer más en la entrada original en Google Blogoscoped

Cada vez más aplicaciones o ideas con Google Apps.

We all want important life moments — like graduating from school, getting married or having your first baby — to be perfect. For many couples, your wedding is a chance to celebrate with everyone you care about; it’s also the largest, most complicated party you’ll ever host. From tracking guest RSVPs, to picking the right florist, DJ and caterer, to coordinating every last detail with your wedding party, it’s no surprise that the process can become overwhelming and expensive.

After proposing to the woman of my dreams with 100 red roses, six months ago I started planning my own wedding. My fiancee and I decided to use Google Docs to manage every aspect of our wedding, starting with shared budget, guest list, to-do list and venue-tracking spreadsheets and keeping all our docs in our “Wedding” shared folder. I ended up talking to other couples who planned their weddings using Google Docs and discovered I wasn’t alone in thinking that it helped save time and avoid headaches.

Today, I’m happy to share this knowledge in the form of over 20 wedding templates available in the Google Docs template gallery. These tools make it easy to estimate and track your wedding budget, collect addresses for invitations, compare vendors and much more. For example, take a look at the address book template below. Instead of emailing hundreds of guests and copy/pasting hundreds of addresses into a spreadsheet, you can send a Google form and collect addresses in a spreadsheet automatically:

Puede leer más en la entrada original en The Official Google Blog

El mejor sistema de traza de bugs es no levantar tickets. Sino escribir pruebas de unidad! Esto es lo que trata de decirnos este artículo. Si bien parece un poco extremista lo que intenta es motivar y destacar la importancia de unit-tests.

Bug tracking systems are bottlenecks, they perpetuate the continuous handovers between testers and developers and they require extensive documentation to be maintained.

The standard life cycle of a bug is usually as follows: A QA tester finds an error in the application, creates a new bug in their bug tracking system and sends it to the developer, which in turn, as soon as he fixes the bug, notifies back to the QA tester, which then, notifies the product owner which then, closes the bug.

Puede leer más en la entrada original en Making Good Software

SourceForge.net (SF), el todavía popular sitio para hospedar proyectos de cógido abierto, fué desde que se escribió en PHP allá por 1998 en ejemplo y caso de estudio de los enormes sitios que podían desarrollarse con ese lenguaje. Pero eso está por cambiar, tal como lo explicó Rick Copeland, ingeniero de software en SF, en su presentación en la reciente conferencia PyCon 2010 de Atlanta.

Puede leer más en la entrada original en VivaPHP!