Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Mon, 21 Feb 2005

Rant 2

Sometimes you just gotta say people are more attractive in the abstract than in reality.

The Constant Reader will have seen my earlier rant about how some spyware producer has chosen to take over machines and direct them to testing.com. Since putting up the note on my front page and resume page, the emails have slowed down to somewhere around four a day, but the remainder are largely of a strikingly aggressive stupidity, such as this gem from "mp3pirate":

Get off my Mother-Blankin Machine You Bl Ank Licking Blank...........
(typography reproduced for full effect)

I can't help but think:

• It's excusable, I suppose, to get spyware on your machine.
• You have to be a little dim to suppose that my site is a plausible destination for real spyware, and that a spyware author would leave his real email address and phone number on the site.
• And isn't it aggressively stupid to send mail like that to someone who you think already 0wnz your machine?

I dutifully reply with a little note reiterating what's on my site and ask if they saw it there (if not, I want to put it where they would see it). Not one has replied.

Heirs to the legacy of the Enlightenment. Bah!

## Posted at 13:37 in category /junk [permalink] [top]

Links to burndown charts

[Update: two more good links]

I'm writing a report for a client, and I mention variant burndown charts. I want to put all my links in one place.

• A Mike Cohn variant that also tracks when work is added.

• My rendering of a Kelly Weyrauch variant to the same end.

• One from Wayne Allen that uses area charts instead of bars.

• A burnup chart from Ron Jeffries.

• A good rumination from Alistair Cockburn, extracted from his book Crystal Clear.

• David J. Anderson's paper on "Managing with Cumulative Flow". (Both this and the previous paper influenced Wayne Allen's variant.)

## Posted at 08:58 in category /agile [permalink] [top]