“Increase the Accessibility and Comprehensibility of a Visual Model with Literate Modeling”, “Crafting Java with Test-Driven Development, Part 9: Driving a User Interface” and “Designing the Obvious, Part 4: Use Cases, Screenflows, and Wireframes”. Read more for excerpts and links.1. Literate Modeling, which was discovered and first described by author Jim Arlow, can increase the accessibility and comprehensibility of a visual model by embedding it in an explanatory narrative. Take this opportunity to learn from the source how to improve your UML modeling and add value to your models with LM.
2. Our poker application doesn’t yet have betting support. Sounds like a good next step. But at this point the customer wants to see what all that development money has been paying for. We’re flexible! So Jeff Langr instead explains how to build a user interface with Swing.
3. Okay, you know who wants the application and what they want it to do. Ready to start coding, right? Perhaps, but Robert Hoekman, Jr. has some suggestions about how to find problems in the design before it gets too expensive to fix.
Somehow, my magic-spider sense made me check out the front page of Informit.com
Increase the Accessibility and Comprehensibility of a Visual Model with Literate Modeling
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=460398&f1=rss
Crafting Java with Test-Driven Development, Part 9: Driving a User Interface
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=459624
Designing the Obvious, Part 4: Use Cases, Screenflows, and Wireframes
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=459618
To be honest, I’m not sure what is the benefit of all this linking to Informit. Most of the articles are of average quality, and don’t contribute much that’s new or innovative.
The links were on the “read more” part of osnews, no reason to link them again.
Secondly, I beg to differ regarding InformIT’s book excerpts. Most of them are very good. Well, as good as the books that are currently selling.
That wasn’t immediately obvious: at least two people agreed with me to judge by the comment’s score. Typically pointers to outside articles don’t have any more body, and the Read More link is easily overlooked. In particular the comment didn’t have the red title text that is traditionally associated with stories with extra content.
As regards Informit, a lot of it is basic enough, and it is painfully hard to read. Also, it seems excessive to have six links to six Informit articles spread over three stories on OSNews. If people are that interested in Informit, they can sign up to its RSS feed. Really, the only things that should be linked are those that have added value; Swing tutorials are neither news nor particularly interesting: anyone can find them on the net if they wish. Likewise, Unit testing has been done to death at this stage and the introduction to formal specification is something every CS student does.
Then there’s the fact that none of the three articles had any relation to one another. Of course, had they been split up into separate news stories, two thirds of the the front page of OSNews.com would have been links to Informit.com.