Continuous Builds on a Dollar a Day (plus the chicken’s fee)
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006This from James Shore, via Mike Gunderloy's ever-entertaining Larkware News.
Archive for February, 2006
This from James Shore, via Mike Gunderloy's ever-entertaining Larkware News.
Guitar Phones
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Annoyed by people conducting 80-decibel conversations on their cellphones in public places? Just wait---according to New Scientist, Motorola is about to inflict guitar phones on the world. Yes, you heard me: the cellphone display will show the fret board, and as the Santana wannabe next to you fingers ...
First Lecture on Software Development Process Is Up
Monday, February 27th, 2006The first lecture of two on software development process is now up. I know a lot of people have very strong opinions on this, so feedback would be very welcome.
What It Takes to Get Eclipse Out the Door
Monday, February 27th, 2006These stats on the development of Eclipse 3.1 (via Prof. Dave Wortman at the University of Toronto) show what it takes to get something that size out the door: Days in the Eclipse 3.1 development period: 365 Decrease in size of the SDK installed footprint (from 3.0, 32KB block size): 6,688 KB Committers: ...
StickyMinds article on Data Crunching
Sunday, February 26th, 2006Part 1 of an article on data crunching is now up on the StickyMinds web site. Part 2 should follow in a couple of weeks.
Database Lecture is Up
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006The lecture on databases (actually an introduction to SQL) is now up. Comments and corrections welcome.
Second Lecture on Testing Now Online
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006The second lecture on testing is now online. As always, comments and corrections are appreciated.
Python, JavaScript, and Boost
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006A few days ago, Brendan Eich wrote a thoughtful post on incorporating a few ideas from Python into JS 2.0 (specifically iterators, generators, and comprehensions, but that's beside the point for the moment). I replied: t would be tremendously helpful if JS2 could standardize plugin APIs in both C and C++ (and do ...
State of DrProject
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006In the wake of at DemoCamp 3 last night, we had another on-line meeting this morning about the state of DrProject. Our original aim was to release it at the end of January; we're now looking at the first week of March, and it may slip again. ...
What Else for Software Carpentry?
Tuesday, February 21st, 200616 lectures are now in place (more or less), which means I have 8 more to do. The syllabus shows what I've covered already; my current plans include: unit testing XML SQL more SQL small-team development process What do you think the other three should cover (keeping in mind that this is supposed to be ...