Cucumber – Making BDD fun Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format.
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods , hosted by the impressive Swiss Visual Literacy project, is the most comprehensive visualization taxonomy I have seen. It divides visualisations into… Data, Information, Concept, Strategy, Metaphor, and Compound Visualizations. Each of these is then classified as a… process or structure visualization, … and further subdivided into whether they show… detail, overview, or detail and overview, … and whether they support...
Manager Tools Manager Tools is focused on helping you become a more effective manager and leader. (…) If you’re tired of a lot of management “theory” and would rather learn specific actions you can take TODAY, we think you’ll enjoy the Manager Tools podcast. Also, it has some very interesting tips regarding Meetings, namely: The 45 Minute Meeting Effective Meetings Starter Model — Part 1 and Part 2
Startup Tools | Steve Blank Awesome reference guide with tools to help start a new business.
Format Text as a Table | Senseful Solutions Here’s a simple tool that let’s you format text as a table. Simply enter in tab-delimited text (e.g. by copying from Excel), then press “Create Table”.
xScope Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.
Navicat – Premium Overview – A cross-database admin and data migration GUI admin tools. It supports MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, SQL Azure, Oracle & PostgreSQL for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux – Download Now! Navicat Premium is a multi-connections Database Administration tool allowing you to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle and PostgreSQL databases simultaneously within a single application, making database administration to multiple kinds of database so easy....
A while back, Widgetlabs (makers of Vodafone’s Update app for iPhone) was kind enough to ask about my complaints regarding the Vodafone Update app. Having setup version 2.0 of the app to connect to my Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, here’s a quick list of my main impressions, in no particular order: Problems Poor timeline management, with several issues: Entries getting frequently out of chronological order, with the most recent ones appended after 1 month old entries, for example....
GitHubRaw GitHubRaw serves raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type headers.