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Fabien Cadet

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Fighting Hype with Hype - 2 views

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algorithms complexity NP-complete quantum computers

shared by Fabien Cadet on 29 Jun 10 - Cached
  • In the end, they conclude that NP-complete problems are just as hard on an adiabatic quantum computer as on a classical computer. And, since earlier work showed the equivalence between different variants of quantum computers, that pretty much shuts down the possibility of any quantum computer helping with NP-complete problems.
  • Fabien Cadet on 29 Jun 10
     
    [...] quantum computers don't help with NP-complete problems ?
omouse

The Graphing Calculator Story - 0 views

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graphing story calculator apple the fun history programming Development

shared by omouse on 08 Aug 10 - Cached
  • I used to be a contractor for Apple, working on a secret project. Unfortunately, the computer we were building never saw the light of day. The project was so plagued by politics and ego that when the engineers requested technical oversight, our manager hired a psychologist instead. In August 1993, the project was canceled. A year of my work evaporated, my contract ended, and I was unemployed.
    • omouse
      omouse on 08 Aug 10
       
      This is why free/open source software is a good idea. If a company kills a project it could still be a benefit to the rest of the software world.
Paris Polyzos

Develop With Passion® - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo - 0 views

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general programming

shared by Paris Polyzos on 08 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Being an effective unlearner enables you to take an unbiased look at a new way of approaching a situation/problem/challenge without the weight of being dragged down by your old baggage(ideas
  • Being an effective unlearner enables you to take an unbiased look at a new way of approaching a situation/problem/challenge without the weight of being dragged down by your old baggage(ideas)
  • One strategy to minimize this is to seek out and collaborate with people who make you feel a little out of your element
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  • Unfortunately, with the large number of these blogs, many people have fallen into the trap of subscribing to too many
  • he started to get frustrated by the abscensce of any new insights/techniques he was sure would magically manifest when working through coding sessions.
  • Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
  • Don't think about what you have accomplished. Rather, what you should have accomplished with your abilities.
  • People who allow themselves to get into this mode more often can find that the spikes in creativity that result, can carry forward with them into the stuff that they have to tackle on a day to day basic
  • Gifts, however , have to be opened, and then further used, if they are going to be of any value
  • When you think you have caught up with the skill of [developer x], either their skill level has increased or you have found another developer whose skill you covet
  • It's not about being the best. It's about being your best.
  • It can give them an change to explore and think about problemsthat they may not feel comfortable with
  • There will always be someone who is better than you, there will always be someone who is not.
  • If you end your days with the persitent feeling of "I do not feel like I got enough done", it could be an indicator that some significant diagnostics need to be performed
  • can create an environment where synergy, collaboration, and friendly competitiveness raise the level of all of the people on the team
  • Give your brain an opportunity to stretch itself.
  • Paris Polyzos on 08 Dec 10
     
    Great article about strategies you may follow and mistakes you may avoid to become a better programmer!
Joel Bennett

Amberjack: Site Tour Creator - 0 views

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ajax demo develop walkthrough webdesign

shared by Joel Bennett on 08 Feb 07 - Cached
  • Amberjack is a lightweight Open Source library, enabling webmasters to create cool site tours.
  • Joel Bennett on 08 Feb 07
     
    Amberjack is a pretty simple tool for creating "tours" of your website for new visitors.
  • anonymous on 27 Sep 13
     
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Kevin O'Neill

The 7 Software "-ilities" You Need To Know - 0 views

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engineering ilities requirements software

shared by Kevin O'Neill on 13 Aug 08 - Cached
  • 1. Usability Software usability can be described as how effectively end users can use, learn, or control the system
  • 2. Maintainability ( or Flexibility / Testibility) The definition of maintainability [for me] implies how brittle the code is to change
  • 3. Scalability Scalability is the ability for your program to gracefully meet the demand of stress caused by increased usage
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  • 4. Availability (or Reliability) How long the system is up and running and the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is known as the availability of a program
  • 5. Extensibility Are there points in the system where changes can be made with (or without) program changes?
  • 6. Security I shouldn’t need to go into this one but to be thorough I like this definition of security: the measure of system’s ability to resist unauthorized attempts at usage or behavior modification, while still providing service to legitimate users.
  • 7. Portability Portability is the ability for your application to run on numerous platforms.
Joel Bennett

Policy Injection App Block - Behind the Scenes - 0 views

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.net @public aop aosd businessrules codeinjection development enterpriselibrary rit

shared by Joel Bennett on 12 Apr 07 - Cached
  • We use an interception mechanism to get in the way of calls going to that member, collect a list of policies that apply using a matching rules mechanism, run the chain of handlers specified by those policies in a chain of responsibility and at the other end dispatch the call to the target. Once the target is done - successfully or with exceptions - the stack unwinds, returning through each handler and finally back to the caller.
    • Joel Bennett
      Joel Bennett on 12 Apr 07
       
      So we can only advise "before"
  • Joel Bennett on 12 Apr 07
     
    Very good read (particularly their evaluation of weaving methods).

    Although as a result their "Policy Injection" application block isn't as powerful as most of the straight-up AOP toolkits out there, it does have a *huge* upside: not only is the code produced by this supportable by Microsoft Product Support, it's now officially part of the Patterns and Practices recommendations!

    The down side is that the only injectable objects are ones created through a "Factory" method (you can't just use the *new* constructor) this brings some performance hits ... but then, you get the ability to separate concerns and apply policies and even business rules after the fact!
Joel Bennett

M - The modelling language - 0 views

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Development Modelling CodeGeneration Oslo M Data

shared by Joel Bennett on 08 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Joel Bennett on 08 Nov 08
     
    M seems to be like LINQ for data structure generation: a simple template language with assemblers for different back-end technologies.
  • Joel Bennett on 08 Nov 08
     
    The Microsoft code name "M" language is a declarative language for working with data and building domain models. "M" lets users write down how they want to structure and query their data using a textual syntax that is convenient to both author and reader.
Rick Fan

Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox - MDC - 0 views

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shared by Rick Fan on 11 Oct 08 - No Cached
  • Your server should serve OpenSearch plugins using the MIME type application/opensearchdescription+xml. Be sure that your Search Plugin XML is well formed. You can check by loading the file directly into Firefox. Ampersands in the template URL need to be escaped with & and tags need to be closed with a trailing slash or matching end tag. The xmlns attribute is important, without it you could get an error message indicating that "Firefox could not download the search plugin from: (URL)". Note that you must include a text/html URL — search plugins including only Atom or RSS URL types (which is valid, but Firefox doesn't support) will also generate the "could not download the search plugin" error. Remotely fetched favicons must not be larger than 10KB
David Corking

Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Sun's Network Innovations (3 of 4) - 0 views

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IP Networking Unix Open source Linux storage

shared by David Corking on 25 Apr 09 - Cached
  • this datacenter systems market is more than $150b annually. And in this datacenter market we build exceptional systems
  • storage, from our new flash based platforms to eco-efficient tape and archive solutions.
  • more than just naked components, they're engineered with remote management and monitoring, component redundancy, integrated virtualization, and on board storage and networking. That's why our margins are higher than the industry's
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  • we now build our entire line of storage systems from general purpose server parts, including Solaris and ZFS, our open source file system.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 25 Apr 09
       
      So, can anyone build a Sun storage device, or are Sun's "general purpose server parts" better (with better management and redundancy ...) ?
  • using a general purpose OS allows us to easily embrace specialized components (from flash memory to GPU's)
  • why am I paying you a million dollars?" I responded, "You can absolutely run it for free. You just can't call me on Christmas day, you'll be on your own." He gave me the PO.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 25 Apr 09
       
      Schwartz gives the strong impression of an IT company _without_ its hand in your pocket. It is a similar attitude and reputation, though with proprietary software, rather than services (for free software), that seems to have made Microsoft so wealthy in the late eighties and nineties.
  • Solaris OEM agreements with IBM, Dell, Intel, Fujitsu and HP are so important to our end customers - they know they'll never be locked in.
  • These open source platforms generate, alongside the services attached to them, over a billion dollars a year, making Sun by far and away the world's largest open source software company.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 25 Apr 09
       
      Hundreds of millions of dollars a year from open source Java alone!
  • Fighting free and open software, like fighting free news or free search, is like fighting gravity - and btw, gravity gets a lot stronger during economic downturns.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 25 Apr 09
       
      !
  • There is a robust, well-designed open source PBX Server called SipX that is primarily backed by Nortel (due to their acquisition of the creators, Pingtel).
  • David Corking on 25 Apr 09
     
    Making money - billions of dollars of it - with open specification hardware and open source software
David Corking

Moving to Symbian S60: One Year Later - 0 views

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shared by David Corking on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • too many ways to develop for Symbian devices: native code, WRT (web run-time) widgets, Java, browser-apps, etc.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 11 May 09
       
      What disadvantage did he find with having choice? Fragmented community, inconsistent UI, difficulty integrating with 3rd party apps, something else?
  • 5-9 clicks just to add a calendar item.
  • disjointed software updating -- which requires a Windows PC in older Nokia devices -- that leaves many North American users without fixes to serious issues for all but the most popular of handsets.
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  • there really isn't something as stable and capable as the Symbian OS (yet).
  • Check with your home or renter's insurance whether they will or not before purchasing high-end models.
  • Nokia's Symbian devices do not always use the same software as Samsung and LG's Symbian devices.
  • Battery life is better with Nokia E-series devices; much better.
  • This platform is fun, but is in major transition; something like what Palm is going through with Palm OS 5 and webOS.
  • phone as a laptop/MP3 player/GPS/web server replacement
  • definitely had its points where I wanted to turn back to the Palm Treos
David Corking

Dr. Dobb's | Q&A: When Mobility and Open Source Collide | March 28, 2009 - 0 views

www.ddj.com/216300285

symbian Cellular phones PDA

shared by David Corking on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • The web browser is a good example, on a pc it may make sense to ask a user to find, click, type, and browse the web or look for a service. In a mobile, converged product, you need to help the user be present with the service even or especially when they are driving or have the product in a pocket or handbag, and requiring them to constantly select 'yes' or to type in forms etc. are real headaches for a consumer.
  • We will not provide a store front, but will help the community create multiple online stores from which they can generate revenue for themselves and the developer.
  • At the other end of the spectrum, you see hoards of teenagers in the U.S., Europe and Asia happily texting one handed, using predictive text.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 11 May 09
       
      No: they do NOT use predictive text - we 40 somethings might - but the kids uset text speak. How does a kid text rom an iPhone in his pocket?
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  • Focus on the whole experience, meaning you need to be inclusive of display sizes, input methods, and form factors when you design and develop your applications and services.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 11 May 09
       
      How much time does a Symbian app developer have to put in to considering all the different Symbian phones on the market?
  • .Net CF
  • expanding this functionality with QT libraries, Adobe AIR technology
  • StyleTap has a Palm emulator that allows you to run thousands of Palm applications on Symbian products
  • Red Five Labs has a runtime for Symbian OS which ensures Microsoft .net applications can be fully supported.
  • many people around the world are not buying and cannot afford a PC.
  • The Symbian Foundation is helping to do this by ensuring we lower the barrier for entry for software developers.
  • David Corking on 11 May 09
     
    Really interesting interview with Symbian boss
David Corking

Coding Horror: Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes | 2009 - 0 views

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Security

shared by David Corking on 08 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Heck, even if you are aware of these security mistakes, you might end up committing them anyway. I know I have. Have you?
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 08 Apr 09
       
      :)
  • David Corking on 08 Apr 09
     
    Some old, some from the 2000s, some still happening too often.
David Corking

Issue 9007 - chromium - Crash on illegal instruction (temporary dependence on SSE2) - G... - 0 views

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Linux

shared by David Corking on 08 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • Comment 36 by agl@chromium.org, Apr 06 (45 hours ago) You can remove the SSE2 specific flags from the build and you'll still end up with a working browser. However, you can't run pixel-tests with such a browser because your outputs will be different. For everything else, it should be fine. Comment 37 by evan@chromium.org, Apr 06 (45 hours ago) There is no reason we really need SSE2; it's just a temporary workaround for bug 8475.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 08 Apr 09
       
      Will have to tweak the build by hand. This will no doubt be fixed before Chromium Linux goes to beta, but right now it is a disappointment, as the reported added speed of Chromium may be more valuable on older machines.
  • David Corking on 08 Apr 09
     
    For now, Linux builds of the chromium open source browser won't work on Intel and AMD processors from the early/mid 2000s (including my desktop PC :( )
David Corking

Remember Smalltalk? | Gartner Blogs 2008 - 1 views

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Squeak

shared by David Corking on 18 May 09 - Cached
  • 2) If you are BIG fan of dynamics languages (closures, meta programming, and all that cool stuff) then consider giving Smalltalk a look.  You might like what you see.  Its like Ruby but with bigger muscles.  You think Rails is cool? Check out seaside. In the end we’ll see a up tick in Smalltalk momentum over the next few years. 
  • Please don’t talk about Smalltalk. I enjoy my competitive advantage over the Java/NET crowd
  • Where Smalltalk really shines recently is in field of web applications due to its dynamic nature (live upgrading, debugging etc.) and because its shortcoming are not relevant here.
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  • On the Desktop - Dolphin creates 500k exe’s with ease - its a 1 button click (you just have to follow some of their easy put things in packages rules).
  • Remember LAN MAN? OS2? Both were heavily endorsed by Gartner.
  • I laugh when people say poor performance on older hardware was a mjor Smalltalk weakness. We routinely delivered applications that ran on 386 and 68020 processors with 8MB RAM. And yes, they were quite snappy. No, the reason Smalltalk didn’t catch on is because Sun spent more money on Java marketing than was spent on all computer languages combined, since the dawn of time.
  • I’ve listened personally to whiny ROR programmers groan and whine about PHP devs LEARNING ROR and undercutting them.
  • I didn’t fall for it for the marketing. I fell for WORA, for the language/runtime separation, for the multi-vendor approach (Sun never wanted to be the single provider for any Java centric product niche, and in fact was never the leader), for the comprehensive set of vendor-neutral APIs for all sorts of execution environments/applications,
  • For now I would like to see more use of Smalltalk like constructs in Java (Groovy).
  • Smalltalk must have sofisticated CASE tools, business process simulation tools, large development environments etc. etc. etc.
  • I stayed to teach Smalltalk since 1993 and am very happy about this information. Each academic year, we produce a small group of new Smalltalkers in the Czech Republic.
  • Joe Barnhart // Apr 4, 2009 at 2:48 pm At the company where I work, we have used Smalltalk for 19 years. Our tiny team of programmers has beat the pants off of competitors who employ teams 100 times our size.
  • David Corking on 18 May 09
     
    trend spotting
joey potter

I Need Computer Technical Help Now - 2 views

"I have no time to wait". That is what I muttered when my computer suddenly went on a blue screen. I had a project and I needed to pass it on time. But with my computer on trouble, I would not make...

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Great Remote Computer Support Services - 3 views

Computer Support Professional offers unrivaled online computer support services that gave me the assurance that my computer is in good hands. Every time I needed the help of their computer support ...

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seth kutcher

The Resident Computer Repair Tech Expert - 1 views

The museum I run has been a family heritage for years. The computer system we have here has been running perfectly for our staff and visitor use. Our resident computer repair tech expert has left u...

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Fabien Cadet

Software Development is not Just Coding « CodeDependents, 2011-06-06 by Benja... - 15 views

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software development coding management

shared by Fabien Cadet on 01 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Many developers approach any sort of planning with apprehension if not outright disgust.
  • Whatever it might be we need to move beyond the “all process is evil” mentality. Yes there will be meetings but you will shock yourself at how much faster you are in the end.
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James Stewart

Fast and Accurate Computer Help to the Rescue - 1 views

I was about to start my presentation when my computer to hung up on me. It was really a big inconvenience for me, not to mention very embarrassing. Good thing I was able to renew my subscription to...

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seth kutcher

Computer Tech Experts Fixed My Internet Connection - 1 views

I used to experience intermittent connection and I always ended up feeling so mad and disappointed. I was not able to finish anything because of the unstable connection. Good thing my sister told m...

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