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Software Engineering: Dead? @ Coding Horror - 0 views

www.codinghorror.com/...001288.html software engineering

shared by Fabien Cadet on 19 Jul 09 - Cached

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The guys and gals who show up every day eager to hone their craft, who are passionate about building stuff that matters to them, and perhaps in some small way, to the rest of the world -- those are the people and projects that will ultimately succeed.
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Everything else is just noise.
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If you want to move your project forward, the only reliable way to do that is to cultivate a deep sense of software craftsmanship and professionalism around it.
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Fabien Cadet on 19 Jul 09

« I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that software engineering is an idea whose time has come and gone. Software development is and always will be somewhat experimental. The actual software construction isn't necessarily experimental, but its conception is. And this is where our focus ought to be. It's where our focus always ought to have been. » __ Tom DeMarco

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">« I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that software engineering is an idea whose time has come and gone. Software development is and always will be somewhat experimental. The actual software construction isn't necessarily experimental, but its conception is. And this is where our focus ought to be. It's where our focus always ought to have been. » __ Tom DeMarco</div>

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

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shared by David Corking on 08 Apr 09 - Cached

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Nabble - Squeak - Beginners - Getting at the squeak beneath eToys? - 0 views

www.nabble.com/beneath-eToys--td22957478.html Squeak

shared by David Corking on 29 Apr 09 - Cached

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- Disable the etoyFriendly preference to get the regular world menu   when you click. The preferences tool is in the supplies flap, object   catalog, alphabetic, P category.
- David Corking on 29 Apr 09
  
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- Or, press Alt-Shift-W to bring up the world menu.
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David Corking on 29 Apr 09

Etoys has become a great branch of Squeak (it branched from 3.8, but in the course of its development for OLPC, it has gained some nice fonts and a nice toolbar, among other things.) It behaves in a slightly more mainstream way, in that Etoys users no longer save the Etoys images, just save the project file (which is referred to in help as "Keep a current project"). The Squeak image itself restarts pristine and untouched each time it is restarted. \n\nSqueakers and developers who want to save their whole image (window positions, preferences, the lot, in classic Smalltalk style) will want the save command in the World menu. Bert Freudenberg explains where the World menu is hidden.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Etoys has become a great branch of Squeak (it branched from 3.8, but in the course of its development for OLPC, it has gained some nice fonts and a nice toolbar, among other things.) It behaves in a slightly more mainstream way, in that Etoys users no longer save the Etoys images, just save the project file (which is referred to in help as "Keep a current project"). The Squeak image itself restarts pristine and untouched each time it is restarted. \n\nSqueakers and developers who want to save their whole image (window positions, preferences, the lot, in classic Smalltalk style) will want the save command in the World menu. Bert Freudenberg explains where the World menu is hidden.</div>

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

code.google.com/...detail 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 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.
  
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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 :( )

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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 :( )</div>

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Remember Smalltalk? | Gartner Blogs 2008 - 1 views

blogs.gartner.com/...remember-smalltalk 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. 
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Please don’t talk about Smalltalk. I enjoy my competitive advantage over the Java/NET crowd
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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).
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Remember LAN MAN? OS2? Both were heavily endorsed by Gartner.
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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.
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I’ve listened personally to whiny ROR programmers groan and whine about PHP devs LEARNING ROR and undercutting them.
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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,
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For now I would like to see more use of Smalltalk like constructs in Java (Groovy).
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Smalltalk must have sofisticated CASE tools, business process simulation tools, large development environments etc. etc. etc.
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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.
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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.
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David Corking on 18 May 09

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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from YAHOO! - 0 views

developer.yahoo.com/...rules.html developer performance rules

shared by Bartłomiej Małysz on 18 Apr 09 - Cached

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Programming languages usage ::TIOBE Index - 9 views

www.tiobe.com/...index.html programming language statistics ranking

shared by Fabien Cadet on 05 Dec 09 - Cached

yc c on 05 Dec 09

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written. The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written. The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. </div>

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