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Use of Card Sorting for Online Course Site Organization Within an Integrated Science Curriculum
Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2013, pp. 41 - 54
Article Contents
The following sections discuss the study's design, participants, materials used, and the procedures. This study involves two distinct card sorts, separated temporally by one year. Data from the first card sort were used to develop an initial course site, and data from the second card sort were used to modify the site.
Study Design
Card sorting and scenario-based usability tests were used to determine the organization of first-year course sites within the course management system. This study was conducted with approval from the UIC Institutional Review Board (UIC#2011-0359). The methodology of the current study can be summarized and subdivided into five specific stages:
- Stage 1: Open card sorting activity, prior to implementation of the new curriculum, with students who had just completed their first year in the traditional program (Cohort A)
- Stage 2: Initial course site development and scenario-based usability test
- Stage 3: Implementation of the sites in the new curriculum
- Stage 4: Semi-closed card sorting activity after implementation of the new curriculum with students who had just completed their first year in the integrated (new) curriculum (Cohort B)
- Stage 5: Course site modification and scenario-based usability test
A process flow diagram of these activities is presented in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Process flow diagram demonstrating stages of the study
There were two sets of participants who conducted card sorts: one set for the initial design of the site and one set for the modification of the design one year later. Participants from two first-year dental student cohorts at UIC College of Dentistry were recruited by email for participation in the card sorting activities. Course sites needed to be finalized and ready to use prior to the first day of the new curriculum. Unfortunately, the faculty did not have access to incoming students prior to this date so initial testing was conducted using students who had just completed their first year of the traditional curriculum (Cohort A). Although these students did not have experience with the new course structure, they had participated in many of the same laboratory and clinical activities, and they more closely resembled the incoming students in terms of demographics, background, and experience than the faculty or any other potential participant group. Data from the first set of participants, Cohort A, provided input for the initial course site design.
The curriculum planning committee decided that a second card sort with participants from the first class to actually experience the new curriculum for a year, Cohort B, would provide data for the modification of the initial design.
Cohort A participants, who had completed the first year of the traditional lecture–based, discipline-based curriculum, consisted of 17 students (6 males, 11 females, average age = 24.1). Cohort B participants, who had completed one year of the case-based, integrated, systems-based curriculum, consisted of 15 students (5 males, 10 females, average age = 24.3). Five additional students from each cohort were recruited to participate in a scenario-based usability test of each site design (Cohort A: n = 5, 1 male, 4 females; Cohort B: 2 males, 3 females). Participation in the study was voluntary, and no compensation was offered.
The free card sorting application for Mac operating systems, xSort© (Enough Pepper, 2012 http://www.xsortapp.com/) was used in this study. The xSort application allows researchers to set up the sorting activity. Within the application, a simulated tabletop and stacks of cards allow for open, closed, and semi-closed card sorting. Researchers input card names, and participants use a computer mouse to move cards into groups (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Card sort within the program xSort (figure use and adaptation permission from xSort, http://www.xsortapp.com/): Participants group information together and can create hierarchies within the information architecture.
Regardless of whether an open, closed, or semi-closed sort is designated, xSort allows participants to leave some cards unsorted if they are unsure of how to group them. Any unsorted cards are excluded from the analysis.
Faculty members on the curriculum planning committee worked together to identify card names for the open card sorting activity. Card names were based on materials typically included in Blackboard course sites for first year dental students at UIC. The existing literature recommended using no fewer than 30 and no greater than 100 cards in order to make the most effective use of participants' time (Spencer, 2009). Following those guidelines, faculty developed 45 cards, each representing one type of content typically found in a course site for first year dental students. The committee reviewed card names and discussed each in detail to ensure that each card represented a single type of content and that there was minimal or no overlap among card names.
One challenge of card sorting is avoiding keyword bias, or card names that might influence the sorting. For example, having a set of cards that included "anatomy videos," "histology videos," and "physiology videos" might bias a participant towards grouping them together into a "videos" category purely based on the card names, rather than on concepts that may be more important to the participant. In this study, card names were selected to minimize keyword bias as much as possible, and the author changed the word order or used synonyms to represent content whose title closely resembled the title of other cards. Descriptions were used as often as possible so "anatomy videos" might change to "recordings of laboratory dissections," for example. Card names were then entered into xSort.
The following sections discuss specific procedures for each stage of the study.
Stage 1: Open card sort with Cohort A
The 17 participants from Cohort A were recruited by email. Summary statistics regarding self-reported gender and age of participants, in addition to the number of groups formed by each participant and the time for completion of the card sort, were collected in xSort.
During the open card-sorting activity Cohort A participants grouped related cards into categories and subsequently named each category. Participants had the ability to form as few or as many groupings as they desired and also had the option of removing cards from the sort. Within this open card sort, hierarchies were unrestricted and participants were able to group cards into subcategories. The author observed the participants and asked them to think-aloud, talking through the processes involved in grouping cards and naming groups. After sorting all cards, participants ranked the groups in order of importance. A faculty member took notes to record all observations, and each participant's movements through the card-sorting program were captured with the screen-capture software Camtasia Studio® (http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html).
Stage 2: Course site development and scenario-based usability test
Using the categories and information architecture gleaned from Cohort A's open card sort, the author, with assistance from the Office of Dental Education at UIC, constructed a template course site in Blackboard.
Five additional participants from Cohort A, who had not participated in the open card sort, were recruited via email to test the template site. Participants were asked to complete nine task scenarios related to navigation through the site as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Task Scenarios for Usability Test with Cohort A and Cohort B
Stage 3: Implementation of the site in the new curriculum
The author (with assistance from the UIC Office of Dental Education) constructed all biomedical sciences course sites for the 2011-2012 academic year using the template site and the feedback from participants in the usability test. The new first-year class (Cohort B) used the newly constructed sites throughout the 2011-2012 academic year. Cohort B students also received a brief orientation demonstrating how to navigate the sites at the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester.
Stage 4: Semi-closed card sort with Cohort B
At the end of the 2011-2012 school year, 15 participants from Cohort B were recruited via email to participate in a semi-closed card sort. The purpose of this second card sort, separated temporally from the first card sort by one year, was to determine what modifications should be made to the course sites to make them more consistent with user needs. The first card sort was necessary to provide a starting point so that the course sites could exist prior to the start date of the new curriculum. The second card sort provided an opportunity to see if our conclusions about the organization and our predictions about what would make sense to students in the new curriculum (all based on data from the first card sort) were supported or not.
Cohort B participants were asked to group the same cards as in Cohort A's open card sort. In the semi-closed card sort, however, Cohort B participants were provided with the names of the consensus categories appearing on the course sites and were asked to place cards within the named groups. Cohort B participants were able to add new groups or delete or rename existing groups. As with the Cohort A card sort, after sorting all cards, participants ranked groups in order of importance. All participants were observed and all movements within the card sort were captured using Camtasia Studio®. Data from the semi-closed card sort were subjected to the same treatment as the open card sort data.
Stage 5: Course site modification and scenario-based usability test
The course template site was modified to reflect results from the Cohort B semi-closed card sort.
Five participants from Cohort B who did not participate in the card sort were recruited by email to participate in a scenario-based usability test. Task scenarios were the same as in the first usability test (see Table 1).


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4.43/5 rDev +3%
(aged in Heaven Hill barrel - on tap at Resurrection Ale House during PBW - served in a snifter)
A: jet black liquid, spongy tan foam... foam gradually falls apart... lil bit of legs in the glass
S: aromas of bourbon, roasted wood and malt, caramelized BBQ'd fats, mild-moderate hit of vinous/bourbon-y booze
T: fantastic flavors! marshmallow, molasses, background vanilla... mellow, elegant roastiness, not all that apparent bitterness... lingering booze with an almost medicinal, grappa-like bitter lull... malt lovers will particularly enjoy the vaguely Milky Way nougat-y foundation... even a plumpness to the booze... altogether it's like an RIS cordial
M: mildly thickish, satiny-ribbony... doughy, though leveling off flat and dry enough not to weigh down and exhaust the palate
O: extremely flavorful, rich and vibrant on the palate... certainly one of the best beers I've had from Iron Hill - well done!
06-23-2014 15:58:37 | More by Bouleboubier
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4.25/5 rDev -1.2%
05-16-2014 11:10:25 | More by rfgetz
4.25/5 rDev -1.2%
12-02-2013 04:19:43 | More by jaydoc
4.5/5 rDev +4.7%
02-24-2013 06:35:24 | More by BARFLYB
4.75/5 rDev +10.5%
02-23-2013 22:42:39 | More by oglmcdgl
4.5/5 rDev +4.7%
01-01-2013 00:59:29 | More by IdrinkGas
4.5/5 rDev +4.7%
06-04-2012 14:24:00 | More by PaBeerLover
4.88/5 rDev +13.5%
Wow what a stout. Had it in a mug club mug at Iron Hill Media, so could only see the top/head but it looked great. Tan head with some rainbow in the bubbles (booze?). What an amazing balance of vanilla sweetness from the barrel plus the toasty bitterness of the base RIS. A thick beer, but not the most viscous of BA RIS. I could have drank this all day, but after 2x 22oz mugs, it did its work. For $7.50 each, this is quite a deal! Try to find a BA RIS this tasty in a 22oz bomber for this price!
As a note, followed this up with an Eclipse tasting (EC12 and Grand Cru) and neither held a candle to the Iron Hill BA Stout. Good work!
01-29-2012 04:28:25 | More by dborginis
4.55/5 rDev +5.8%
Had this on nitro-tap at the Wilmington location 1/20/12. Poured into a taller mini pilsner glass (interesting choice).
A: This is pretty much pitch black. Around the curves at the bottom of the glass there might be some reddish hues, but for the most part it's black as night. Love the nitro pour, it gives that nice solid layer of tight bubbled light tan head. This head stuck around the duration of the drink. There wasn't a whole lot of lacing on the glass though.
S: Smells of sweet chocolate, roast coffee, vanilla and bourbon. It smells delicious.
T: The nitro makes this sip so smooth, not the biting bitterness that sometimes comes from force carbonation. I get lots of soft vanilla blended with the bitterness of the roast coffee. Really helps to silence the normal bitterness on this RIS. The close has a little bit a throat warming, but for the most part the ABV is nicely hidden.
M: It's full bodied but the nitro really helps to smooth it out. Totally coats the mouth with vanilla bourbon goodness.
O: Their RIS is already an A beer for me and this one was just a touch better. Still the balanced beer that I remember and love, just made even better. Bravo.
01-23-2012 15:27:24 | More by inlimbo77
4.28/5 rDev -0.5%
on tap at good dog in philly
Pours a completely black color with a browned frothy head. Cloudy retention and patches of lacing on the glass.
Strong amounts of cocoa powder and chocolate in the nose. Syrupy sweetness, roasted malts, vanilla and bourbon.
An absolute chocolate party up front, cocoa and bittersweet darkness. Similar to hot chocolate powder with caramel and light bourbon. Roasted malts with softer earthiness. Finishes with more sweetness, vanilla, and some bourbon tones.
Full body, mild carbonation, sticky and ultra smooth on the tongue. Drinks really well, a little sweet but still balanced. I'd like to see more of the barrel presence but this was still really tasty.
05-23-2011 05:13:58 | More by xnicknj
2.63/5 rDev -38.8%
Poured into a pint glass. Poured black with a nice coffee colored heading.
Smell is immediate of bourbon,some chocolate,coffee,and wood chips.
Taste is what really turned me off to this beer. It was ridiculous with bourbon but also I got hint's of vanilla extract almost to the point where I spit this out.
Mouth is a full bodied decently carbonated beer. but with the ridiculous boozy taste it just didn't feel right on the palate.
Drinkability I would say would be unimpressive. I really couldn't drink another one of these as it is just ridiculously close to drinking vanilla extract straight up.
04-10-2009 14:15:03 | More by TheFightfan1
4.2/5 rDev -2.3%
Revised after previous Iphone posting
A- black and opaque with a nice pillowy head that has lasted for half the glass so far and still going. It actually lasted for the whole glass. There was some head left when I reordered.
S - overwhelmingly bourbon with some choc and coffee undertones. The Oakiness comes through a bit as it warms.
T - choc and bourbon. The malts are uderstated compared to the bourbon, but in a good way.
M - full bodied and bready with just the right amount of carbonation.
D - I'd order this again.
02-05-2009 21:51:34 | More by Gilgemesh
4.35/5 rDev +1.2%
750ml bottle into shaker pint on 10/12. Huge thanks to akorsak for busting out this puppy!
A - Pitch black body with a slim tan ring for a crown, which left a bit of spotty lace. Carbonation? Can't really see into the depths of this black hole.
S - Extremely complex nose with hints of nutty malt, licorice, sweet cream, vanilla, bitter chocolate and coffee. Additionally, some subtle bourbon and oaky/woody notes add a bit of depth to the aroma, and aren't generally as pronounced as other bourbon-aged RISs I've had in the past.
T - Initial flavor is actually quite sweet and cream-like, with vanilla and chocolate notes, as well as coffee making an appearance. Hints of oak and bourbon also make their way into the flavor profile, creating an extremely tasty and complex flavor profile. Very nice!
M - Super smooth body with soft, virtually non-existent carbonation. The velvety texture allows this to glide down the throat effortlessly. However, this could be consequentially quite dangerous, as the 12.5% alcohol content is well-concealed. Finish displays minimal bitterness, but has a warm and sweet effect on the palate.
D - Wow! This is a superior drinkable RIS that really exceeded my expectations. Quite possibly the best RIS I've had to date. I enjoyed this more than...dare I say it... Dark Lord!
10-14-2008 13:40:35 | More by ffejherb
4.33/5 rDev +0.7%
A corked and caged but unlabelled 750 mL bottle purchased at the North Wales brewpub over a year ago. Shared with sierrags, ffejherb and ksak.
A: The stout is bold and black, nothing gets through the depth. The bottle opened with little evidence of carbonation and the repeated pours did little to change that. Small pools of head managed to emerge but this beer is definitely low on carbonation.
S: The nose is bourbon sweet with vanilla and pepper mixing with the roasted malts and coffee of the stout. A great melding of the two components.
T: The stout is top notch, combining the best of the bourbon and stout without pushing too much bourbon barrel on you. The stout is loaded with coffee, caramel, chocolate and cocoa, burnt toast and chewy nuts. Those flavors mesh well with the vanilla and corn infused bourbon. The bourbon flavors linger on the palate, a nice keepsake of an excellent ale.
M: The smoothness is remarkable. The stout characteristics have merged with the bourbon on a scale that is rarely achieved.
D: A great beer, this is too much for one person to conquer alone. If you like bourbon this stout is for you.
10-13-2008 14:21:21 | More by akorsak
4.3/5 rDev 0%
Appearance: Simply put, it pours a black, still body.
Smell: Strong, redolent scent of dark malts and fine bourbon, with notes of chocolate, dark brown sugar, burnt wood, and if you breathe in deep, some dark caramel.
Taste: Dark malts with a distinct chocolate taste. Medium sweetness. All the expected bourbon notes are present: brown sugar, vanilla, and wood. Slight earthy bitterness. A roastiness emerges and lasts till the sweetish, warming finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-full body. Nil on the carbonation, but this is a handbottle, so whaddya expect?
Drinkability: There's not really anything to discuss, it's just plain GOOD.
03-15-2008 00:09:39 | More by ChainGangGuy
4.1/5 rDev -4.7%
Thanks to egajdzis for sharing this much celebrated, quickly selling bottle.
Appears a pitch black with a small tan head. Light levels of CO2 build up at the bottom of the foamy head. Mild lacing is left around the glass.
Smell is of bourbon, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, & roasted nuts.
Taste is of the mentioned aromas with highlights of caramel, cocoa, and vanilla.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied, smoth, slightly hot, and a bit thin in the finish. Lots of vanilla lingers in this one.
07-12-2007 18:58:52 | More by weeare138
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Coincidence is not causality, and for proponents, including the mayor, to erroneously give credit to the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School for spurring improvements in the Gloucester Public School District is disingenuous at best and ignores the dedication, hard work and collaboration that has taken place over the years by parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders.
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TDD for algorithms: the state of the art
Uncle Bob's recent formalization of the Transformation Priority Premise may improve the ability to build an algorithm with Test-Driven Development.
In his example, Uncle Bob follows strict rules of evolution in his code for implementing sorting, and finally reaches quicksort instead of bubblesort. If you don't remember, a criticism of TDD is that it accepts naive solutions like bubblesort: it is normal trying to Test-Driven Development an ordering algorithm, and ending up with bubblesort or insertion sort, which have O(n^2) computational complexity, far from the optimum O(N logN), the boundary for comparison sorts.
I've yet to apply the Transformation Priority Premise on a real world problem however, and I'm waiting for independent confirmations. Today we will discuss about what goals you can reach with Test-Driven Development, by also citing some insightful references. We are trying to learn if TDD is useful for creating algorithms, or only as a discipline for coding something we already know how to do.
There has been a recent comparison of the two different Test-Driven Development schools: The Classic versus London TDD describes the classic school as an attempt to discover algorithms with incremental testing, while the London school always starts from a big picture, like an entire application.
When Classic TDD is illustrated, it's usually an example where an algorithm is fleshed out one test at a time. For example, if test-driving an implementation of, say, a program that converts integers into roman numerals, we might start with the simplest test "roman numeral for 1 is I". The simplest solution might be to return the hardcoded literal value "I". Then we move on to the next easiest failing test.
The dichotomy has been described as a fallacy as both styles are necessary during development: the Classic style for small, reusable parts, the London one for acceptance and integration testing.
However, it has been pointed out that practitioners of the Classic style often draws on tacit design knowledge, for example in the article Making too much of TDD by Michael Feathers:
The emergent design meme, for better or worse, became intimately woven into Test Driven Development. We found that, in the small, you could start developing a system without having a plan for its design, and, through the application of a set of rules and some reflection, arrive at very good designs. When I think back about this, I call this the "Look ma, no hands!" era of TDD. Critics would rightly point out that people who were doing this well were drawing on a lot of tacit knowledge of good design. For the most part, we agreed. We just felt that this knowledge of good design could be taught, and people could make continuous decisions across the development cycle to grow good design organically. You do have to bring your design knowledge to the table. Red/Green/Refactor is a generative process, but it is extremely dependent upon the quality of our input.
My take on this is that actually producing reusable algorithms is the job of the computer scientist or operations researcher; our job is to implement published algorithms, and to reuse existing implementations if they are too complicated (@xpmatteo would make the example of cryptography), without tying too much our design to libraries and frameworks.
What if we don't know how to make a test pass?
A personal experience of mine, for example, comes from Matlab and algorithms for multimedia algorithms like Harris or Canny feature detection, used to find interesting points on images. Apart from the difficulty of testing their results and defining them beforehand, they're difficult to code by incremental improvements too; however, when you can, you learn why the algorithms works in this way. A much better choice than barely memorizing it. The same could be said of sorting algorithms: after that old lesson in college, we often forget why quicksort and mergesort are faster.
Thus TDD is a tool for design, because it forces to define and focus on an interface rather than an implementation. But if you do not know how to design, listening to your tests will be painful as they would scream and either be ignored, or halt the development because you do not know how to fix the situation, and return to easy tests.
A hammer (what an overused metaphor) is useful, but if you start throwing it
around, not knowing how to hit the nail, you will make more harm
than benefit. That's why I write and write about patterns both for the production code and the testing code: they're a step above the single class in design. With TDD you can easily develop a single class, but won't feel pain very much even after having put some hundred lines in it. When it comes to divide the work in multiple classes, your spidey design sense should be start tickling, and instantly see if some pattern applies or it would be a bad idea.
Uncle Bob made the right point again on TDD a while ago, in a quote which I printed and hanged in my office:
Look, TDD is not my religion, it is one of my disciplines. It's like dual entry bookkeeping for accountants, or sterile procedure for surgeons. Professionals adopt such disciplines because they understand the theory behind them, and have directly experienced the benefits of using them.
Like Jack in Lost, you can operate without the right environment in emergency conditions or when time is very short (for example, a bomb will go off if you do not compile something in the next minute). But will it be less or more difficult? Will it be safer? Will it be desiderable for the patient?
Surgeons follow strict procedures due to the risks involved, without inventing as they go along (I dare you to accept an emergent design for your bypass). But should you invent when doing development? I mean, how can you estimate how long will it take to prepare an application if you do not know how to code it? You do not know which pattern you will be using, how many classes there will be in this package, or what fields should the objects have. And that's right: it's far more flexible to decide this constraints after having got feedback from the code. But usually you have all the knowledge and experience necessary for making these choices.
Now imagine you're told to prepare an application that performs face recognition. Will you start from a test? Maybe, but it will stay red for a long time. In that case, after defining what I want with some informal user stories, I will start doing spikes, exploratory testing and walking skeletons to learn more about the problem.
Spikes are not test-driven, while walking skeletons have tests written on a very high-level and to test a design which is already fleshed out (in fact, they're used to discover if an architecture can work).
Only when I'm confident that I can make a test pass, I write it. But I have a rule: anything that goes under source control should be tested.
My final thought is that during development, the solution space is very large and there is an infinite amount of code which solves your problem. TDD drives us towards a solution which is maintainable, presents a good Api (since the test is its first example of client code) and minimal because you can easily try to delete a line of code and see if the tests are still green. TDD is desiderable, but you cannot think that by following blindly the Red-Green-Refactor cycle you will end up with a full-fledged application. It's only the basic workflow: you still have to do the thinking, and to gain the knowledge necessary.
In short, this is the line I would try to follow: to make this test pass. should I use a Map or a List? Uhm, first I have to learn what a Map and a List are, and the difference between them. Let's open a data structures book. I don't know how to make this test pass, and maybe after some experimentations and research I will have learned more; I will be able to write a better test, and to actually get to green.
Let me know what you think about developing algorithms with or without TDD in the comments.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Ronald Miura replied on Thu, 2011/01/13 - 5:46pm
The problem with Uncle Bob is that, although he says TDD is not his religion, when he talks about TDD it sounds too much like religious preaching.
He uses the analogy of surgeons washing their hands, but the way he talks about TDD, it's as if mastering 'the art of washing hands' is the single most important skill you could ever acquire as a surgeon.
I'd rather pick one skilled with the scalpel.
Giorgio Sironi replied on Fri, 2011/01/14 - 3:34am in response to: Ronald Miura
Loren Kratzke replied on Fri, 2011/01/14 - 1:45pm in response to: Giorgio Sironi
I still maintain that tests are best for locking down functionality as opposed to implementing functionality. TDD is totally cart-before-the-horse.
In the past I used a test harness to bootstrap a code module belonging to a larger system. In electronics manufacturing I used a test jig designed to test circuit boards that were already manufactured. In music I used a metronome and scratch tracks as opposed to designing an album cover. In construction I used concrete forms as opposed to hanging curtains in a vacant lot and noting that I needed more building materials. In masonry I stretched a string to lay bricks level as opposed to using a level that told me I needed more bricks. In accounting I would enter numbers into the books (at the END of the day as opposed to the begining of the day). In the sign shop I would prep the sign for lettering on a bench as opposed to 20 feet in the air and standing in a parking lot saying the sign needs more letters.
I am telling you, TDD is not a sustainable pattern. It is little more than a fetish and is downright moronic when applied to anything real-world in my experience.
Roger Lindsjö replied on Fri, 2011/01/14 - 4:01pm in response to: Loren Kratzke
In construction: The concrete form is your test that makes it (very) easy to shape your result. Did any of your final customers order a form? Or just a specific shape out of concrete?
The stretched string in masonry is also a test first, you first stretch the string to guide you in laying the bricks.
I think TDD is a very useful tool, but of course it does not make a bad developer good. Referring to your previous examples, have you ever seen a mason lay more than a handful of brick with out using a tight string to guide the work? However, using a tight string does in no way guarantee that the result will be good.
Loren Kratzke replied on Fri, 2011/01/14 - 6:55pm in response to: Roger Lindsjö
Giorgio Sironi replied on Sun, 2011/01/16 - 5:41am
Roger Lindsjö replied on Wed, 2011/01/19 - 2:24am in response to: Loren Kratzke
My father is a mechanic and I don't ever see him working for long period of times without testing of some sort (measuring, fitting etc), and in many cases fixtures are made before producing the end result. Still, I see developers that never do tests before the fact, and if they do the tests after, the tests are infrequent. Coding can be going on for hours (even days) before checking if the code does what was expected. And at that point often quite a bit of more work is needed even though the code was "done".
As for what isn't a test, not much I think. Our whole life is built around tests, but again, for some reason even professional programmers put off testing even though we are working in environment where testing can be inexpensive. If you were building a house, could you imagine cutting wood and nailing it together for hours or days, looking at the blueprint, but never once bringing out your measuring tape?


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The new Louisville facility is home to all pre-production design. This includes costume and scenery departments as well as the choreography and manufacturing of ZFX's world-renowned flying effects.
An exciting element of this new location is the "dojo," a 4,000-sq.-ft. high-bay rehearsal space. The company's creativity department staff, which includes a full-time choreographer, automation specialists, and flying directors, use the dojo to explore new ideas in aerial choreography. Flying scenes can be designed, choreographed, and perfected in the dojo and rehearsals can be videotaped for review, saving clients the time and expense of using an actual theatre.
Over recent years, ZFX has increasingly focused on the corporate and industrial event industry. The new facility, with its expanded rehearsal space, is an exceptional tool available to clients, corporate and otherwise, who wish to include original flying choreography in their special event. ZFX has also used the additional space to renovate the full line of rentals they offer for the classic flying productions Peter Pan and Disney's Beauty and the Beast, including sets, costumes, and props.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Former Arizona Cardinals
fullback Reagan Maui'a says he met the girlfriend of Notre Dame's Manti Te'o, a
woman the university and Te'o now say doesn't exist.
Maui'a told ESPN that he met Lennay
Kekua in 2011 while he and some teammates were on a charity mission to American Samoa.
Maui'a told the network that this
was before the woman met Te'o and that he and Kekua became "good
Maui'a was through talking about the
issue on Thursday, saying in a tweet "if ur calling me for a story, plz don't. I have
better things to do... I gotta make breakfast."
Maui'a was released by the Cardinals
on Oct. 30, the last of his five stints with the team. Maui'a played at Hawaii and was drafted in the sixth round by Miami. He played briefly
with the Dolphins and with Cincinnati before
coming to Arizona.
Maui'a told ESPN that Kekua
"was tall, volleyball-type of physique. She was athletic, tall, beautiful.
Long hair. Polynesian. She looked like a model."
He said he got to know her family.
"When she was going through the
loss of her father, I was - I offered a comforting shoulder and just someone to
bounce her emotions off," Maui'a said. "That was just from meeting
her in Samoa."
His detailed description flies in
the face of the acknowledgment by Notre Dame and Te'o that the woman was
By Thursday, Maui'a was only
offering cryptic phrases on Twitter.
In response to someone offering
support, he wrote, "Thanks bro,, this entire thing is crazy."
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I thought it best that before I blog on Transfer Day, I take a couple of days to breathe. I'll admit it, I was furious. So close to the formation of what is just about my dream team, yet so far away. So I took a long deep breath, paused, and now I blog.
Unfortunately, I'm still furious. I appreciate all you blokes chipping in with your positive outlooks and silver linings. But I can't get past this one.
But c'mon 1Eyed, you might say. Lewis Holtby has been described as the deal of the century. His signing alone, makes this a better transfer than any other January transfer window of late.
So tell me, where is Holtby is going to play? I assume most will have in playing at ten. We'll probably see a return of the 4-2-3-1 formation we started the year with. That is likely to leave Adebayor on the bench, with AVB asserting again in days gone by that he sees Defoe as a key strike weapon up front.
Jermain Defoe is a lot of things but he is not a lone striker. We suffered chronically until Adebayor arrived with the lack of a target man. When Adebeyor joined the side, he didn't add a lot. Not goals, nor assists, but he became a target for Lloris and our backs to clear the ball out, and not automatically lose possession as is the case with Defoe up front. When we looked best this year, we had Adebayor and Defoe in the team, despite the fact that neither have played particularly well.
So AVB is going to be left with a quandary. Play without a target man or play without his strike forward. Or he may choose to sacrifice something defensively and drop Holtby into a deeper role at the expense of Scott Parker. Personally, that's the way I'd go, especially against lower-ranked teams. I'm not convinced Parker has come back the same player and I believe Adebayor's presence as a target provided an undervalue asset to the side.
Of course, all this could have been academic. We could have had a genuine nine capable of playing up front and that would have transformed this team into something entirely better. Given AVB has commented that we were so close to the signing, I still believe it was the investment we HAD to make especially with so much being on the line as regard to us needing to finish in the top four.
I think we can still do it. I think Holtby adds a new dimension to our side, and AVB will take a step closer to the type of football he really wants to play with the German in his side. But the opportunity lost, especially with AVB saying that club would likely move on and not return for Leandro saddens me greatly. And it probably will until I can find another genuine nine to pin my hopes on for future Tottenham glory.


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PADDY Ashdown has offered his condolences to the wife of a Crewkerne man who died in a three-vehicle collision which the former Yeovil MP was also involved in.
Mark Hurford, 49, died in the collision at Turnpike Cross on the A356 last Friday (January 24).
Lord Ashdown, of Norton-sub-Hamdon, was being driven by his wife, Jane, in their Renault Scenic when the incident occurred at around 5pm.
Lord Ashdown said: "My wife and I are very upset for the other family."
Mr Hurford's Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Transit van were also involved in the crash, after which a 29-year-old man was taken to Yeovil District Hospital with a dislocated shoulder and back injuries.
Two other patients were treated for minor injuries by paramedics.
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Writing a book is a lonely thing, especially if you are as superstitious as I am. Here's the problem: I've created a hard and fast rule for myself that I can't show my work to anyone until I'm very nearly done with it. I feel somehow that it will break a spell to hear feedback too early, that I'll lose steam on the project, that I'll be disheartened by criticism or misguided by praise, that I'll expose my characters to light before they're fully developed and therefore they will be forever stunted, caught in time prematurely.
Whether or not this is true, I have no idea. I've never tested my theory because I'm too afraid to. Each novel I write feels as fragile and breakable as an expanding balloon. But the result of this is that I have no idea what anyone will think of my books. By the end of the three years it took me to write a first draft of Heft, I felt as if I'd gone a little insane -- talking to yourself, even in writing, will do that to you. It took two more years of working with my agent and editor until it was finally published, and I still had only shown it to a handful of readers. Its publication, therefore, was a scary thing: sort of like walking down the street in a bathing suit.
I am happy to report that the ensuing months have been more than pleasant. After I got over metaphorically covering my ears and eyes, I began to read the feedback that readers sent me and continue to send me regularly. Corresponding with these readers, reading their thoughts on the book and, in some cases, their beautifully written, deeply personal confessions about the ways in which they can relate to the characters, has been one of the most moving experiences of my life.
It is especially gratifying to hear from these readers because Heft itself is a book about overcoming loneliness to forge human connections. One of its protagonists, Arthur Opp, is a 58-year-old, 550-pound former academic who, at the book's start, hasn't left his home in a decade; the other, Kel Keller, is a 17-year-old high school baseball star who has been blessed with the gifts of athleticism and popularity but is struggling at home, and feels unable to tell anyone about it. Obviously, I have a very different biography than either one of these characters (beginning with the fact that I'm a woman), but parts of my life are invested in these characters, and it is incredibly touching to know that some of the book's readers feel this way, too. That I'm not alone in occasionally feeling like Kel and Arthur.
One of my favorite quotes about writing comes from the poet Salvatore Quasimodo. In a 1960 New York Times article, he wrote that "Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own." I thought about this quote quite a bit when writing Heft, and even more while reading your letters. I am so glad and gratified that some of you recognize my feelings; in reading your notes to me, I have found that I recognize yours, too. I hope you'll accept my sincere thanks for reaching out, and I hope you'll continue to reach out -- to me, but also into the world around you, however you know how. I promise to do the same.
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I find that a lot of the pressure-treated 4x4s and 6x6s I use twist badly after installation as they dry. It's not a structural problem, but it looks terrible. Is there any way to recognize pieces that are likely to twist so they can be culled before the problem comes up?
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To minimize twisting, select pieces that have the pith as close to the center as possible at both ends, which indicates that the grain is straight. If the post doesn't come from the center of the log, look for pieces where the growth-ring orientation at the ends closely parallels one of the faces (see illustration, below). Again, a matching pattern at the ends indicates straight grain.
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The Ridgway Area School District Board of Directors approved several new additions to their staff during a special meeting held Thursday evening. Two additional special education teachers were approved following an executive session.
JOHNSONBURG – A preliminary hearing was held Wednesday before Magisterial District Judge George A. King for an inmate of Elk County Prison charged with possession of contraband or controlled substances in the prison.
BROCKPORT – The Horton Township Board of Supervisors has been busy drafting a new quality of life ordinance which has undergone some revisions as of the June meeting.
The proposed ordinance establishes "protection districts" which include the "wellhead and watershed protected areas in the township" and seeks to prohibit "certain land uses/activities in the protection districts" and impose "special requirements for all land uses/activities in protection districts," including oil and gas drilling outfits.
Ridgway's annual historic homes tour is back after a several year hiatus and is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 3. This year's tour, titled "Ivy and Elegance," will also feature several gardens along with five homes throughout Ridgway Borough.
The event is sponsored by the Ridgway Heritage Council with proceeds from the tour going to benefit the Main Street Beautification Program.
"Ivy and Elegance" tours will begin at 12 p.m. with groups departing every 15 minutes until 2 p.m.
ST. MARYS – The City of St. Marys Police Department arrested David J. Charles II, 22, of Benezette, for resisting arrest and separately for aggravated assault as a result of an incident which occurred on Tuesday, July 8 at 2 p.m.
ST. MARYS – The completion date for the state Route 255 project is slated for Oct. 31 according to PennDOT representatives who spoke during St. Marys City Council's Monday evening workshop.
Additionally State Street is expected to re-open on July 18 as part of the SR 120 portion of the project which was scheduled to be closed for four weeks. On Thursday crews will be paving the area.
KERSEY – The Fox Township Community park is set to kickstart its summer of musical entertainment Thursday, July 10 at 6:30 p.m. with a performance by the Elk-Cameron Community Band.
The group has been together for roughly a dozen years and features several different genres including marches, overtures, pop music, classics and movie themes.
The Ridgway Eagles will be putting on a third fundraising event with proceeds going to aid in the relief of Ridgway residents affected by May 21's devastating flood.
The event, scheduled for Friday, July 11 will feature music by Erie-based band Sean Patrick and the Newgrass Revolution, who made their way up the ranks as finalists in the 2013 Rock Erie Awards.
Francis Anthony Millard, 56, of Ridgway, pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in federal court to charges of conspiracy to possess firearms by a convicted felon.
The Ridgway Fire Department is hoping community members will use this year's carnival as a celebration of sorts as the area continues to recover from the May 21 flood that ravaged the town, particularly the borough of Ridgway.
"We've all had it rough with the flooding that we experienced," said firefighter Frank Quattrone. "At a directors meeting we mentioned that with the pool being held up a few weeks, the flood, and the YMCA going through their renovations, we really want to make this year's carnival nice for our community and county. We're hoping everything goes well."


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(WMC-TV) - Maggots along the wall near the service entrance.
Maggots marching around the dumpster.
Maggots slip-and-sliding near the grease barrel. Maggots barrel-rolling into Pontotoc Ave.
Rumba Room, 303 S. Main St., roused the rabble with one nasty maggot infestation.
"It was nasty," said Otho Sawyer, restaurant inspection supervisor for the Shelby County Department of Health. "Quite a few maggots."
Tuesday, Aug. 13, a viewer sent the Restaurant Scorecard smart-phone video of the infestation. The next day, Aug. 14, another video -- worse than the first.
Thursday, Aug. 15, the Scorecard shot its own video of the infestation behind Rumba Room. By then, they had been untreated for at least two days, possibly longer.
The Scorecard wrote Sawyer to request a department inspection. Sawyer said one of his inspectors visited the property hours after our visit Thursday, but Rumba Room was not open. The inspector posted a Notice of Violation.
Friday, Aug. 16, an inspector was allowed inside and outside the property after Rumba Room opened at 7 p.m. Sawyer said by that time, the maggots had been cleared, but his inspector determined the source of the infestation.
"Uncovered garbage, leakage from garbage, uncovered garbage cans, grease on the ground," he said. "Any kind of nutrients like that, flies like to lay their eggs."
"Yeah, it was pretty bad," admitted Rumba Room owner/partner Edgar Mendez. He's not accustomed to receiving poor health scores. Health records indicate Rumba Room carries an average health score of 93.
When we asked him what took so long for the maggots to be addressed, he answered, "What happened is we normally open on Monday night, and we're closed out from Monday. So we really don't come back here (between Monday and Thursday).
"We had our pest control company treat it, but obviously, they didn't do a very good job. So we came and brought a whole bunch of bleach and just cleaned it ourselves right here."
The Scorecard's own inspection confirmed the clean-up. The inspector who visited Rumba Room on Friday issued it an 86, then upgraded it to a 91 after the staff removed some spoiled food, according to the inspector's report.
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Jasper's, 1450 Gaither St., South Memphis, 99 on August 14
Five Guys Burgers & Fries, 2100 Union Ave., Midtown Memphis, 98 on August 12
Twinique Cakes, 6870 Hillshire Dr., Hillshire/East Memphis, 98 on August 15
Wendy's, 1725 Winchester Rd., Airport Area, 97 on August 12
Los Palmitos Mexican Restaurant, 6815 Stage Rd., Bartlett, TN, 97 on August 15
Huey's, 1771 N. Germantown Pkwy, Cordova, TN, 97 on August 13
El Porton Mexican Restaurant, 1805 N. Germantown Pkwy, Cordova, TN, 97 on August 13
Papa John's Pizza, 2757 S. Mendenhall Rd., Fox Meadows/SE Memphis, 97 on August 15
El Mezcal, 8834 Highway 51 N., Millington, TN, 96 on August 14
Yellow Rose, 4426 S. Third St., South Memphis, 96 on August 6
Zinnie's Restaurant, 1688 Madison Ave., Midtown Memphis, 96 on August 14
My Favorite Place, 880 N. Germantown Pkwy, Cordova, TN, 96 on August 14
O'Charley's, 1040 N. Germantown Pkwy, Cordova, TN, 96 on August 14
Pizza Hut, 6532 Quince Rd., Kirby/Quince Area/East Memphis, 96 on August 16
Akasaka, 7685 Farmington Blvd., Germantown, TN, 95 on August 14
Exline's Best Pizza In Town, 3145 N. Watkins St., Frayser, 95 on August 15
Coleman's BBQ, 5175 Millbranch Rd., Whitehaven, 95 on August 15
Larry's Pizza, 2857 Kirby Parkway, Kirby/Quince Area/East Memphis, 88 on August 16
Francisco's Mexican Restaurant, 7772 Highway 51 N., Millington, TN, 87 on August 16
C-Fu Chinese Grill, 3135 S. Mendenhall Rd., Fox Meadows/SE Memphis, 84 on August 15
Al Rayan, 288 N. Cleveland Ave., Crosstown/Midtown Memphis, 84 on August 14
McDonald's, 2200 Covington Pike, East Memphis, 84 on August 15
Dragon Gate, 815 Exocet Dr., Cordova, TN, 83 on August 15
KFC, 200 N. Danny Thomas Blvd., Downtown Memphis, 81 on August 13
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SuperKombat World Grand Prix IV Kickboxing video of Bob Sapp (10-12) vs Alexandru Lungu (0-0). Lungu has a (7-2) MMA record and finished 3rd in the European Judo Championships open class back in 1999.
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Baseball can't hold lead again in 5-3 loss to Kennesaw State
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The Dolphins are starting to feel like they are going through their own version of Groundhog Day after holding a 3-0 lead through six innings only to see it slip through their hands once again as the JU baseball team fell to Kennesaw State, 5-3, Friday evening at Stillwell Stadium.
JU (33-20, 18-11) and KSU (32-22, 18-10) will now face off for a winner-take-all on Saturday for the No. 2 seed in the A-Sun Tournament next week in Nashville, Tenn.
"This series has become a pattern that I would like to break," said JU head coach Terry Alexander. "KSU is riding sky high right now and in order for us to take a game, we have to shut the door on them after the fifth inning. It's going to take a hard effort from everyone in order to do that."
Junior Sean Green (3-2) was tagged with the loss after allowing two runs on two hits. Freshman Tony Mollica got the no-decision despite allowing two runs on five hits with four walks and two strikeouts in a season-best 6.2 innings.
Jeff Brown (2-0) got the win after allowing one run on three hits with a walk in two innings of relief. Steven Janus also got the no-decision after allowing two runs on six hits with a walk and six strikeouts in six innings. J.B. Johnson notched his ninth save by closing things out in the ninth.
Junior designated hitter Clay Kollenbaum went 2-for-4 with an RBI while sophomore first baseman Adam Brett Walker went 2-for-5 to lead the Dolphin offense.
Andy Chriscaden went 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI while Sean McClurken and Chris Wages each finished with multiple hits.
JU took a 2-0 lead in the second when junior shortstop Jimmy Howick hit an RBI double to the left-field corner and junior designated hitter Clay Kollenbaum hit an RBI single to right center.
The Dolphins made it 3-0 in the seventh when senior right fielder Esterlin Perozo scored from third on a wild pitch.
The Owls took a 5-3 lead in the bottom of the frame when Aaron Dobbs hit a three-run triple to right center and Andy Chriscaden hit a two-run double to left.
The Dolphins and Owls will conclude their series on Saturday at 1:05 p.m. The contest can followed on 1010XL with Joel Lamp calling all of the action or through live stats by logging onto JUDolphins.com.


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Heading into the 2011 season, the Bills' concerns rested with the front seven, coming off a season in which they finished dead-last defending the run. The secondary was the strength of the "D," as the Bills were third in the league in passing yards allowed.
This season, though, the play of CBs Drayton Florence, Terrence McGee and Leodis McKelvin has not been pretty. The Bills are now 27th in the league against the pass, despite being second in the league with 15 interceptions, but only three of those have come from the trio of starting corners.
The poor play at corner was evident in the loss to the Cowboys, when Tony Romo threw only three incompletions in a 44-7 drubbing.
McKelvin lost out on a jump ball to Dez Bryant in the endzone, despite his good coverage. It wasn't the first jump ball he lost this season — Raiders WR Denarius Moore beat McKelvin for a 50-yard score in Week Two. Head coach Chan Gailey addressed the fourth-year corner's struggles this week.
"Leodis is struggling. He'll tell you that, I'm sure. You have to have extreme confidence out on the edge like that. ... His confidence has been shaken a bit, and we've got to get him back where his confidence can be regained," Gailey said.
One daily team observer pointed out that McKelvin has regressed since his rookie season, when he also made an impact on kickoff returns.
The Bills re-signed Florence in the offseason after arguably his best season, when he had 15 passes defensed and three picks. According to Pro Football Focus, 69.8 percent of the passes thrown at Florence this season have been completed. The league average is around 60 percent. He had three pass-interference penalties in the loss to the Giants, including two on the Giants' game-winning drive.
According to PFF, McKelvin and Florence have given up eight combined TDs — three by McKelvin and five by Florence. McGee has had some nice plays since returning from injury and hasn't given up as many big plays covering receivers in the slot, but he's 31, injury-prone and had his struggles against the Jets.
It is important to note that the pass rush hasn't done the corners any favors. If you ignore a 10-sack effort against the Redskins, the Bills have a dismal five sacks in eight games.
The way we hear it, the Bills' organization is of the belief that you can never have enough cornerbacks, explaining its decision to use a second-rounder on Aaron Williams in April's draft. Cornerback may be right behind pass rusher in terms of the Bills' priorities for the offseason.


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Natural history museums began as cabinets of curiosities. To gather material, a scientist would go into the field. His only options of recording what he had seen were to either draw it or kill it. If he chose the later, specimens were sent to the taxidermist.
When I am in a museum, I act as a taxidermist. I am preserving the animals through photography. I use my camera to look into their eyes and give a small amount of life back to them.
I use the POP (printing-out paper) process because it is a historical process and yields rich detail and subtle tone. It is a perfect match for my subject matter: old, yet timeless. In my final presentation, the square format and wooden frames reference early display cases.