Archive for January, 2007
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
CS Games are an inter-university competition involving Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Software Engineering students from across North America. As their site says:
For an entire weekend, you will be challenged both individually ...
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Funny post. Until you've been there.
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
The Project Horseshoe report on "Building Innovative Games that Sell" is out. Conicidentally, so is Joel Spolsky's review of Dreaming in Code, which is meant to be a Soul of a New Machine for the early 21st Century.
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
One of the driving forces behind DrProject was instructors' need for a scripting API to support batch operations (such as creating one repository for each pair of students in a course, or filing the same ticket against each team). We have mostly succeeded, but as we discovered last week, ...
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
This year's Jolt award finalists are up. I've read nine of the fifteen books, but recognzie less than 20% of the names of the products... Must be getting old...
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
A neat trick when debugging: give the object a unique ID (to avoid confusion if it's relocated by the garbage collector in a way that changes its address), then break on that ID. I really, really want someone to write a good book on debuggers.
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Two good posts calling for a Threading Maturity Model and Personal Threading Maturity Model respectively.
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Another great post from Jon Udell, this time calling on developers to worry about use experience before user experience. Coincidentally, I was trying to explain a couple of days ago to a senior figure in a publishing firm why I hadn't reviewed any of their books recently. "I find out ...
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
Adam Goucher has put the notes for his QA 101 course on the web. Thanks, Adam.
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
I have a confession to make: I fold down page corners when I'm reviewing technical books. Only technical books, mind---I'd never, ever do something like that to a novel. And yes, I've tried yellow sticky notes, bits of strings, and other mnemonic devices, but somehow, a folded corner ...
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