Showing Off Some Projects at Collective Idea

By Daniel Morrison

Our team does a lot of very cool work, but we’re often barred from talking about it. So recently we decided to focus on some projects we can talk about and wrote up some case studies. Here are three.

Quickly Test Slow Uploads

By Daniel Morrison

How do you test a slow file upload? Force it to be slow.

Slow it Down

By Daniel Morrison

Most of the time, you test your apps on a fast connection, especially when working on a local machine. Most of your clients/visitors/customers aren’t so lucky, but how do you simulate their connection speed?

If you have installed Xcode on Lion, you have access to a very cool tool called Network Link Conditioner.

Much ado about nothing

By Keith Gaddis

What do Google’s AppInventor, JavaBeans, and Myspace all have in common? They’re all misguided attempts at putting development in the hands of non-developers.

Stop lying.

By Keith Gaddis

“I don’t have time to test” seems to be somewhat of a recurring theme in hurried projects. Stop lying to yourself—and your clients.