Gillian Aldrich started growing vegetables in her backyard three years ago, and she's now working on planting a bed of hydrangeas, butterfly bushes, rose campion, and -- her favorite -- pale-pink hardy geraniums along one side of her property.
Drawing a perceived object (so-called “realistic” drawing), Betty Edwards proposes, is a visual perceptual skill made up of five component skills. These are the basic skills that you will learn in our workshops. They are: 1) Seeing and drawing edges (sometimes called “contour drawing”) 2) Seeing and drawing spaces (called “negative spaces”) 3) Seeing and drawing relationships (called “perspective and proportion”) 4) Seeing and drawing lights and shadows (called “shading”) 5) Seeing and drawing the whole (called the gestalt, the “thing itself,” the essential nature of the observed subject, which emerges spontaneously from the first four component skills). Instruction in these component skills fits the overarching rule stated above by presenting a student’s brain with tasks that L-mode will turn down, as fancifully described below. Perception of edges: For L-mode, “Too complex, too slow, not needed for quick naming.” Perception of spaces: “I do not deal with nothing. It’s not useful; spaces can’t be named.” Perception of relationships: “Too paradoxical. Don’t tell me that ceiling slants. I know it is horizontal. Don’t tell me that person in the distance is half the size of the one close by. This stuff doesn’t fit what I know.” Perception of lights and shadows: “Too complicated! And they keep changing! Not useful.” Perception of the gestalt: “Too many parts. I can’t pay attention and name them all—I’ll just name the whole thing.”
They know your name, your phone number, where you live, your buying habits and, in many cases, what you are interested in buying -- sometimes even before you do.
The brittleness of tests or specs is a recurring topic in BDD (or acceptance test-driven development, specification-by-example, or whatever you choose to call the thing where you write acceptance criteria, automate them and then make the application match). This is a tricky area, and there are probably as many styles of defining and grouping acceptance…
More and more teams are coming to the realization that automating every single test may not be the best approach. However, it’s often difficult to determine wh…
"An illegible type, set it how you will, cannot be made readable. But the most legible of types can be made unreadable if it is set to too wide a measure, or in too large or too small a size for a particular purpose."(Dowding 1957, p.5; in Lund, 1999 )
If you wanted to hand a book over to a new tester, to help them get to grips with the world of testing, what topics would you expect or like to see in it?
Streamlining the incident post-mortem process is key to helping teams get the most from their post-mortem time investment and learn from previous issues. Read on to learn why you should conduct post-mortems, best practices to follow, and what blameless post-mortems are all about.
Nüchtern betrachtet verkauft Apple bloß technische Geräte für den Alltag. Doch um die Firma hat sich eine Gemeinde Konsumgläubiger gebildet, deren Horizont die Marke ist. Wenn von Freitag an das neue iPhone verkauft wird, sind weitere Höhenflüge zu erwarten. Die Hysterie kann nicht über die Schattenseite des Konzerns hinwegtäuschen. Apple ist zum Sinnbild einer fragwürdigen Globalisierung geworden.
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A. Dattolo, F. Ferrara, and C. Tasso. Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Human System Interaction - HSI'2010, page 548-555. Rzeszow, Poland, IEEE press, (May 2010)