Archive for August, 2005
« Previous EntriesWhy Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005“only lazy programmers will want to write the kind of tools that might replace them in the end.” and “to find the best solutions to problems, he must keep a fresh mindset and manage to think out of the box (or rather, know its actual shape). In a way, this leads to the mindset of [...]
Who’ll mind the mainframes?
Monday, August 29th, 2005The Boston Globe has a running a story about the maintainers of the mainframes getting older and facing retirement. One of the problems is that many computer science programs don’t include mainframes in their curricula anymore. From the article: “Amid concerns that America doesn’t produce enough technically trained young people, mainframe computer users and developers [...]
The $50 Million Giveaway
Monday, August 29th, 2005Want to start a company? We found 11 venture capitalists sitting on business ideas they’re dying to bankroll. All you have to do is send them exactly the right business plan. $5M Mobile ID for Credit Card Purchases WHAT HE WANTS FROM YOU: A finished prototype application within eight months. “I’m looking for the best [...]
Automation Abandoned
Monday, August 29th, 2005Denver International Airport opened in 1995 with an ambitious fully automated baggage system: 26 miles of underground track, thousands of small gray carts, all controlled by a mainframe programmed for just in time delivery. But the system never worked well; bugs delayed the airport’s opening for months (at $1M/day). The system has now been abandoned [...]
MS Virtual Earth & mappoint
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Microsoft Virtual Earth Virtual Earth Info Virtual Earth Dev Team Blog Virtual Earth Message Board Developers Site Comparisons between Maps and VE Map Point/ – has better Australia maps than any of the above. This site has articles on using Map Point with PHP and perl amongst others. Bookmark It Hide Sites
project management: Why small is good
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005From Joel Spolsky: If the only difference between programmers were productivity, you might think that you could substitute five mediocre programmers for one really good programmer. That obviously doesn’t work. Brooks’ Law, “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later,” is why. A single good programmer working on a single task has no [...]
Australia Linux trademark row
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Some background on why the Linux mark institute (and more specifically Linus Torvalds) are attempting to licence the Linux trademark in Australia. If you don’t protect a trademark, it becomes useless. thats why Kimberly-Clark don’t like you using the term Kleenex if you mean any old generic paper tissue. My understanding is that the owners [...]
new Google Download
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Google has rolled out a beta version of its desktop software, adding such features as “Sidebar,” which offers a personalized panel of information such as e-mail, stock quotes and news. The software includes a scratch pad-style tool for taking notes and tools for searching one’s desktop and Microsoft Outlook inbox. Called Desktop 2, the software [...]
Post to Blogger from within MS Word
Monday, August 22nd, 2005Google announced earlier this week the release of Blogger for Word, a free add-in, downloadable from the Web, that allows users of the Web log service Blogger to post directly to their sites from Microsoft Word. Once the add-in is installed, three additional buttons appear on a user’s Word toolbar: Publish, Open Post, and Save [...]
Creating Your Own Server Logs
Sunday, August 21st, 2005link here. The example given would suit a PHP based blog package like WordPress, or it could be adapted to whatever programming language is your chocie (the environment variables used have equivalents in most script languages). The principal is that you write a little piece of code (PHP /Perl / Ruby / etc) that simply [...]
State of Ajax: Progress, Challenges, and Implications for SOAs
Sunday, August 21st, 2005Ajax hasn’t even been big a year yet and already open source development tools by the dozen are pouring out. Not to mention big names like TIBCO and Microsoft already have previews on the way of full-fledged IDEs for developing Ajax applications. Ajax may be the biggest software development story of 2005. Dion Hinchcliffe has [...]
stumbleupon – Social networking for Web Surfing ?
Saturday, August 20th, 2005www.stumbleupon.com The pitch is that its an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites. As you use it, you’ll get high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by other SU members with similar interests. In return, your rating of these sites shares them [...]
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