Gold-plating means adding unnecessary, frivolous features or requirements. This is covered in the book Rapid Development. Gold-plating is a great metaphor for adding artificial value, like cheaply manufactured jewelry. Having spent a few years programming, these words from Jeff Atwood ring true. When designing a project, you have to be careful to not have too [...]

New York City artist Rosemarie Fiore has many experimental projects, such as using an amusement park ride as a giant spirograph. Using a long exposure photography technique she has captured movement patterns in several arcade games: These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80′s created by Atari, Centuri and [...]