soapUI. The Web Service, SOA and SOAP Testing Tool. Combine stats not created equal. Which statistics collected at the combine correlate with NFL success for running backs, and which are meaningless? This is a sports story, but the lesson is for everyone. Just because you measure something doesn’t mean it’s important. Marginal Revolution: Incentives [...]
Links for April 13
April 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: · economics, links, music, sports, statistics, Web services
Links for March 12th
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Jon Udell interviews Ward Cunningham about how the Eclipse portal exposes its innter workings by way of reports on test results, and the advantages the resulting transparency provides. Really, really interesting stuff. Bruce Schneier discusses a report on the lack of security in implantable medical devices that provide [...]
Tags: · browsers, music, security, software development, testing, WordPress
Neutral Milk Hotel
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
On the occasion of the 10 year anniversary of Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, a couple of people wrote retrospectives that are worth checking out. The first is an argument for the greatness of the album by Will Robinson Sheff. The second looks at what Jeff Mangum has been up to [...]
Tags: · music
My prediction for music DRM
February 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments
It seems that the recent trend in the music industry has been to make tracks available without DRM but to snub Apple by refusing to allow them to sell the DRM-free tracks through the iTunes Music Store. I suspect that this is a sort of vigilante antitrust action by the record companies that they [...]
Tags: · Amazon.com, Apple, DRM, music