(i hate patents)

Interesting tidbit from iOS devcamp tonight: Objective C is now in the top 10 programming languages - #iphonedevcamp

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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Rules of Productivity Presentation
How do we get more work done? It is a question that every manager and every passionate worker faces. Yet, for the most part, teams operate on gut instinct and habit. The results are less than optimal.

Over the years I've been collecting small pieces of research on various factors that actually seem to improve productivity. I've assembled eight of these experiments into a PowerPoint presentation. Feel free to use the graphs and data within to spread these practical ideas throughout your own teams.

Cet outil vous donne la possibilité de juger en un simple coup d'œil des tendances qui animent le secteur des TIC.

Write all your code clean, the first time you write it. Make classes for everything. Use enumerated types. Don't take shortcuts. Don't have any part of the code where you say, I just glossed over that for now. You are NOT going to go back and fix it!

So perhaps frequent switching is less a function of fashion but instead a coping mechanism to deal with the mismatch between reality and software.

But after closely studying Git I'm a little bit awestruck; Torvalds is a frickin' genius, a true visionary, and somehow managed to just "get it" and instantly, in a flash of insight, come up with "the solution" for version control.

From now on, this is the article I will point people asking me what I think about RIA - Sylvain Carle

Far from taking Java to new heights, Sun Microsystems' latest platform specification is a nail in the coffin of enterprise Java. That's according to analyst house the Burton Group, whose latest report, JEE5: the Beginning of the End of Java EE, predicts t

Technical debt is the unfinished work the product development team accumulated from previous releases. This debt includes: design debt, where the design is insufficiently robust in some areas; development debt, where pieces of the code are missing; and te

The conclusion I draw from this and my own experience having migrating my fair share of source trees is that the version control system is a first order effect on software, along with two others - the build system and the bugtracker. Those choices impact

At one level, of course, nothing at all is wrong with chocolate. There aren't many essential nutrients in chocolate, of course, but in and of itself that is not a problem. Consumed in moderation, as part of a well-rounded diet, chocolate adds variety and

Boxroom is an open source project that aims to develop a web application for sharing and managing files online. The goal is to let a group of people share their files with eachother. To make this possible the application lets users create folders and up/d

MySQL Quick Admin is now an open source project, meaning it is in fact free. Version 1.0 has just been release, so please, feel free to download it now!

Open, not like Skype