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Builders of computer systems often need information about floating-point arithmetic. There are, however, remarkably few sources of detailed information about it.

However, I run into other developers or software managers who mistakenly think cross platform code is difficult, or might double or triple the development schedules. This misconception is based on their bad experiences with badly run porting efforts. So this article is to quickly outline the 10 simple rules I live by to achieve efficient cross platform code development.

A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design

Recently I’ve heard lots of discussion about Kanban style development — an approach that breaks that breaks the primary rule of today’s common agile practice: the fixed development time-box.

In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful.

This tutorial explains how to share a Git repository among developers. It is meant for small teams who are adopting Git for the first time, and want to get started quickly with a familiar setup before exploring Git's many new possibilities.

“Computers must support the way in which people naturally and comfortably work. This is needed both for personal job satisfaction and for corporate survival. I care about whether the team is thriving, and whether the software is being delivered. Keeping the people trained and the process light are key to both.”
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during the week I was listening to Amy-Jo Kim's excellent Mixergy interview about Game Mechanics and wondering how the concepts could be applied in more 'serious' software.

Finally -- the PDK to allow native code development on the Palm WebOS phones.

Nice overview/reference/tutorial on using floats in CSS.

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Palm® webOS™ is Palm's next generation operating system. Designed around an incredibly fast and beautiful user experience and optimized for the multi-tasking user, webOS integrates the power of a window-based operating system with the simplicity of a browser. Applications are built using standard web technologies and languages, but have access to device-based services and data.

Only members can participate in the workflows accessible through this portal: electing new committers, scheduling project reviews. But it turns out that anybody can explore the portal use cases.

To serve users, I want to promote the notion of "tinkerable software". Tinkerable software allows the dedicated amateur to tailor it to her needs, even though those needs were unanticipated by the software's builder. (Thus, a Preferences dialog doesn't cut it.) Emacs is the canonical example of tinkerable software.

Heck, even if you build exactly what the customer asked for, they'll say: "uh, yeah, I asked for that, but now that I see it, I clearly wanted something else."

JUCE (Jules' Utility Class Extensions) is an all-encompassing C++ class library for developing cross-platform applications.

It's particularly good for creating highly-specialised user interfaces and for handling graphics and sound.

The intended user

My first project as a Google engineer was an internal web app for code review. According to Wikipedia, code review is "systematic examination (often as peer review) of computer source code intended to find and fix mistakes overlooked in the initial develo

I happen to hold a hard-won minority opinion about code bases. In particular I believe, quite staunchly I might add, that the worst thing that can happen to a code base is size.

svnmerge.py is a tool for automatic branch management. It allows branch maintainers to merge changes from and to their branch very easily, and automatically records which changes were already merged. This allows displaying an always updated list of change

Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules.

You’ve seen the videos, the weblog posts and the hype, and you’ve decided you’re going to re-implement your product in Rails (or Java, or .NET, or Erlang, etc.). Beware. This is a longer, harder, more failure-prone path than you expect.

Why is software in a never-ending state of crisis? Why do most projects end up horribly over-budget or cancelled or both? Why can't we ship code without bugs? Why, everyone asks, can't we build software the same way we build bridges?

I listened to Linus today indicate how branching is vital, centralization is evil and innovation should not be walled nor restricted and trust is a social graph percolation problem...

We have a teamwork laboratory where we run team project simulations called BootCamps. Hundreds of teams have participated in these simulations with us over the last 11 years. We continue to collect and codify the *best practices* for creating high-perform

Review Board is a web-based tool designed to help projects and companies keep track of pending code changes and make code reviews much less painful and time-consuming. It is being developed for use in VMware, but is designed to be generic enough to use in

Back in the early 1990s, I wrote and published The Art of ‘Ware (M&T Books, 1995), a reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, a 6th century BC treatise on conflict and warfare. My reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s maxims applied to developing and m

Developers need to take more responsibility for testing their code. But the majority of developers are not willing, nor ready, nor able to jump on the bandwagon of the more extreme and demanding developer testing movements such as Test Driven Development.

The purpose of TracHacks is to provide free Subversion hosting for community created Trac hacks. TracHacks uses the excellent TagsPlugin, which adds basic categorisation to Trac. All hacks are tagged with one or more of the available tags.