[weblog] All Tools Suck

A new weblog and an interesting voice.
To be continued.


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So on top of the usual frustrations with poor, incomplete, and  
incorrect implementation of standards and typically buggy and poorly- 
supported programs, add my frustration with trying to integrate these  
tools with other similarly joyful tools and you can see that my job  
is a recipe for bitterness and pain.

Oh yeah, and one more thing: I am freakin' Eliot Kimber! I've been  
doing this more years than most of you snot nosed kids with your IDEs  
and your AJAX hacks and your iPods have been alive so don't be  
telling me that my requirements are somehow less compelling than what  
you've figured out by reading XML for Dummies! Listen to me:  
implement the features I want or your software will be forever  
cursed! You have been warned!

Now do you understand why all tools suck?
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-- Dr. Macro's XML Rants: All Tools Suck
http://drmacros-xml-rants.blogspot.com/2006/02/all-tools-suck.html
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:44:27 GMT


And to add, the last Weblog post from Patrick Curran

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Although we care passionately about quality, it is not our job to  
ensure that implementations of Java technologies are of high quality.  
We test only what is specified. If the spec requires a rotten  
implementation (hopefully somebody would have caught this at an  
earlier stage!) then we will faithfully verify that implementations  
are rotten in exactly the way the spec requires.

If it's specified then we test it. If it's not, then this is someone  
else's job.
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-- The Fine Print
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/pcurran?entry=test_the_spec_not_the
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:00:50 GMT



-- 
Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead
   QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/
      *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***

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