Twitter Wrap-up for the Week of December 3 Through December 7
If you’re not following us on Twitter, here’s what you missed this week:
Web and Software Development
- Whitepaper: Defending Against Denial of Service Attacks
- The Seven Principles of Software Testing
- A pain-free way to find and fix bugs, a learning experience, and an easy way to cross-train on systems. Code reviews!
- Unless you enjoy getting unvalidated data sent from users who disable javascript, you may want to look into this trick
- This came up during a project last week. Thought we’d share. Useful Regular Expressions for Validating URL and Email
- Great coding horror story: Never underestimate the power of unexpected user behavior.
- Great tutorial: How to Learn C# … Part 1
- Follow-up to yesterday’s post: How to Learn C#, Part 2 — Namespaces
- Really enjoying this series: How to Learn C#, Part 3 — Coding Basics
- Hopefully you’ve been keeping up with the previous posts: How to Learn C#, Part 4 — Variables and Types
- Part 5 in the series How to Learn C# — Selection Statements
Technology and the Computer Industry
- Dave Ward reviews his first month’s experience with his Microsoft Surface RT.
- RT @mashable 40 Years After Apollo 17: An Astronaut Reflects via @spacedotcom
- RT @cspenn #the5: Fantastic read: a long interview with Tim Cook on Apple
Web Design
- Myspace gets a sexy new makeover. Looks like Pinterest meets About.me. Will it survive the baggage of its past?
- Fitts Law: The closer and larger a target, the faster it is to click on that target. Not always in UX though.
- Five major pitfalls that you must avoid when designing a responsive website
- The client may not know the difference, but you should. Adaptive design and responsive design are NOT the same thing.
- Welcome to the New Mashable
- Slideshow: Clever tips and tricks towards a responsive design
- A poor, or automated translation, can ruin the user experience. Here are things to consider when translating a site.
Project Management and Business Analysis
- What to know when starting a project
- Paul Glen: Being right vs. not being wrong
- Going agile does not just affect developers. Management, HR, finance and other business units need to be on board.
Marketing and Social Media
- RT @Eloqua Why it pays to be a patient blogger via @markwschaefer
- RT @joshhumble What We’ve Learned From 300 Blog Posts via @tkographix #blogging
- RT @jogebauer 8 Advantages Content can Give You in Business Social Media …
- RT @JeffSheehan 8 Things You Should Bear In Mind For Your Social Campaigns In 2013 via @memeburn #smm #planning
- RT @Eloqua How Do #B2B Companies Use Social Media? [Infographic] via @unbounce #modernmarketer
- RT @TimothyCarter Small Business Social Media Marketing Needs
- RT @erp_insights White Paper: The Essentials of a Social Media Strategy
Miscellaneous Items of Interest
- Webinar: Guy Kawasaki talks about Google+, the importance of “enchantment”, and why the Mac still matters.
- RT @mashable Top 10 Google Searches of 2012
- RT @gary_galvin Thanks to the Indiana Blood Center for doing the blood drive at @galvintech.
- How much time you spend in a week keeping up with email? Try these handy tips
- Still looking for last minute Christmas presents? Five Cool Coffee Mugs for Software Engineers
- RT @Formstack Fact: Twitter handles more search queries per month than Bing and Yahoo combined.
- RT @StartupPro The Examiner: Don’t let passion destroy entrepreneur objectivity
- RT @JeffSheehan Predicting The Next Google Algorithm via @dynamicbusiness #google #seo
- RT @raintoday How Prospects Learn Is a Critical Part of the Sales Process by @annescarlett
- Don’t forget our #BloodDrive … December 7th at our headquarters. Drop by. Free cookies!
- Don’t forget our #BloodDrive … December 7th at our headquarters. Drop by. Free cookies!
- RT @lindseygroepper Hey, Indy … : @Wired thinks you should back local designer on Kickstarter, & so do we!
- RT @EntMagazine Time to Try the ‘Anti-Facebook’?
- RT @marksasmith successfully Selling IT: Three Things That Turn Off IT Executives And How to Never Do Them
- RT @Silverpop Check out these 6 key #marketing trends for 2013 & tips for succeeding in the year of the customer
- Unlikely Places to Find Content
- Video: Where Do Good Ideas Come From …
