Calling all WURFL users:

The WURFL project maintainers want to understand more about how you're using the WURFL, so that they can prioritise development effort and make sure they're addressing real-world problems.

To that end I've set up a short (10-question) survey at SurveyMonkey: if you use the WURFL in any capacity, then please do take the time to hop over there and fill it in.

Success/Failure Criteria: "At a breakfast seminar here June 6 on "Factors for IT Project Success and Failure," Prof. June Verner of NICTA (the National Information and Communication Technology institute of Australia) provided a fascinating mix of surprises and predictables related to her subject topic."

Hacknot - All Aboard The Gravy Train: "You just focus on the problems with the old technology, while saying nothing of the problems that will inevitably accompany the new one. The newer option has an image that is unblemished by the harsh light of experience."

Five Worlds of software: "When you read the latest book about Extreme Programming, or one of Steve McConnell's excellent books, or Joel on Software, or Software Development magazine, you see a lot of claims about how to do software development, but you hardly ever see any mention of what kind of development they're talking about, which is unfortunate, because sometimes you need to do things differently in different worlds."

 

Saturday saw a slow recovery, then Sophie and I drove off to the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. On the way there we happened across Middle Farm, and having had many discussions of said farm the previous night I requested a stop-off. I thought I'd not been there before, but everything seemed frighteningly familiar; I must have popped in at some point over the last few years.

 

After that we continued on our journey to magical Bexhill, to see an exhibition of work by Jeremy Deller and then a performance of Acid Brass, the project he collaborated on with the William Fairey Brass Band. It's basically a brass band performing a selection of Acid House classics.

The exhibition was great; I wish we'd gotten there earlier to see all of The Battle of Orgreave, the film he produced about a clash during the 1984-5 Miners Strike... but the bits I saw looked good. I also particularly enjoyed his selection of calling cards designed to provoke conversation (e.g. "Please help me - I went to a single sex public school", "There is only one Minogue").