“The more and varied the formats in which you can access data, the more accessible that data is. I realise that this flies in the face of programming principle of DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself. But really, you can never have too much data.”

If tests are written, and they are relevant to the the functionality of the application, the code base stays smaller, faster, and is more maintainable. But figuring how to help people continue writing tests is what’s really important.

The swimming and flying robot jellyfish are being shown off at the Hannover Trade Fair this week by industrial automation company Festo.

Very Cool

A drop-in piece of JavaScript, it’s unobtrusive and allows users to sign in using common OpenID providers

The API is still underdevelopment none the less it all looks very shinny.

This is mainly about unifying their 500M user accounts into a centralized profile management system plus allowing users to build their own apps using Google’s OpenSocial and Yahoo’s forthcoming Application Platform. If they get this right is will be huge.