Life? Don’t Talk to Me About Life…
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008From Jon Pipitone, unprompted, very early this morning:
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From Jon Pipitone, unprompted, very early this morning:
IEEE Top 10
Monday, September 15th, 2008http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/top_ten.jsp is also available as an RSS feed, so you can see what the rest of the profession is reading...
How do I enlarge a fizzbar without overwriting the user’s snibbit?
Monday, September 15th, 2008Or, in plain English, "Stack Overflow Launches". It's a "find what you need" site for programmers with a credible pedigree --- interested to see if it works.
What’s Your Favorite Online Survey Engine?
Saturday, September 6th, 2008We're running a survey this fall of how scientists use computers, and while SurveyMonkey does most of what we want, it doesn't do everything. We would welcome pointers to other online survey engines that: Are very reliable. Provide a wide variety of tools (including "Rank the following in order of importance" with ...
Mozilla Developer Days in Toronto Sept 15-16 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Via David Humphrey: a two-day workshop on developing for and with Mozilla will be held at Seneca College in Toronto on September 15-16, 2008. The first day is meant for non-Mozilla devs who want to see how they can leverage the platform, contribute, or otherwise learn about Mozilla tech for ...
Community-Authored Books
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Via Michael Nygard: O'Reilly is creating a new line of "community-authored" books. One of them is called "97 Thing Every Software Architect Should Know"... All of the "97 Things" books will be created by wiki, with the best entries being selected from all the wiki contributions. The whole wiki makes for interesting ...
A Pile o’ Links
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Accumulated while on holiday---funny how sometimes I used this blog as an external strap-on memory pack. There's a workshop on "Infrastructure for Research in Collaborative Software Engineering" atFSE in Atlanta this November. Its aim is "...sharing experiences in evaluating and using open-source, academic, and commercial choices to conduct research, ...
Managing Meetings
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A random conversation about John Cleese and training videos at Agile'08 on Tuesday reminded me that I wanted to post about something neat I saw at CAST'08. Everyone attending the talks had a red, a yellow, and a green card with a number on them (the same number for all ...
I’d Really Like To Draw A Picture…
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008I'd like to draw a picture---I really would. It wouldn't exactly be an entity-relationship diagram, or a database schema, but it would combine elements of both, and it would help me explain the model underlying the app I'm currently working on to the whole team (myself included). But I'm not ...
Where Design Fits In
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Agile'08 starts Monday, which makes me feel that I ought to justify the Big Design Up Front I'm currently doing. Here's as far as I've gotten: I'm thinking again about access control in DrProject. A user's membership in a project is represented by a triple (project, user, role), where a role ...