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Hello, my name is Daniel Ice. I am a software developer in the Dallas, TX area. I enjoy learning about new technology. I mostly focus on PHP and Ruby on Rails.

Archive for the 'Testing' Category

Learning to Test: Email Signup

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Background A big part of the DSNews.com website is its Daily Dose. The Daily Dose is a daily email that includes the top 4 stories on the site. We send it out to a lot of people and it is opened and people click through to stories. Before the re-launch in August, this email was [...]

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Learning to Test: Images vs Text

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

We recently redesigned DSNews.com.  We had a tight deadline so some of the polishing elements have been added on over time.  Rather than add them in a careless manner, I decided to develop my testing skill set by always introducing new elements with a 2 or 3 variation test. The first new feature to be [...]

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