I have been pretty quiet in last few days. The reason why was hinted here - we have finally a space. The project started on Monday and we were running around like crazy since Sunday. Started with moving in looots of boxes - 9 workstations, each with two 19" LCD monitors plus three servers, network gears, cables etc - three full cars. Then came the unpacking and setting up, which took much longer time that I would ever have expected.

Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find.

We will be moving into new office space soon. It is exciting time, stepping from working (mostly) at customer's locations to own project office. Location is of course Kanata Business Park North, with nice view to a golf course. This location brings several changes against the office in downtown - some of them are great - such as 1) we have lot's of space and 2) parking is not an issue - arrive any time, park as long as you wish.

Bruce Byfield has interesting article in Linux.com featuring hands-on comparison of four on-line wordprocessors: specifically ajaxWrite, ThinkFree Online, Writely, and Zoho Writer. I do not 100% agree with all his conclusions, but it's interesting and worth reading if you are exploring these tools. I am certainly staying with Writely, right now I am using it on daily basis. Combination of WriteRoom for off-line concepts and "thinking phase" of writing and Writely for on-line editing, adding links, etc fits ideally my needs.

It is hard to imagine - on September 13th it will be 50 years since IBM introduced the very first hard drive. Since that time technology made quite a progress. Compare for yourself: 1956 - RAMAC drive capacity: 5 Megabytes, built from fifty 24" spinning disks weight: about one ton price: $250'000 / year (lease) price per gigabyte: about fifty million dollars 2006 - typical harddrive capacity: 500 GB weight: < 1kg price: ~ $300 price per gigabyte: about 60 cents Amazing, isn't it ?