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Time to Vote - Ajax Feature Wish List
What would you like to see in the next generation of browsers? Can you help to make the web a slight
Stroke UX, Synthetic Life and BMW: Geometry and Functions In N Adaptions
Three videos that made me think: How it feels to have a stroke (TED Talks) Neuroanato mist Jil
Git 1.5.6 released
Git 1.5.6 has been released, and there are a lot of usability fixes and tweaks which should make the
Useful Feeds
How many blog posts start with the words "Sorry I've not been blogging much recently, but I resolve
Aptana Jaxer: ser ver-side Ajax
Aptana released Jaxer: the first ever Ajax server... you got that right, ser ver-side Ajax ... the co
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Eating The IT Elephant - Book Review
Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies released over the last 5 years state as little as 30% of complex projects succeed. Although this number is climbing, very large projects (300 – 500 man ye
Involving The Team In Bug Fixing Shares Knowledge
A large part of improving the quality of software is knowledge sharing (indeed it is one of the basic tenets of Lean). In most organizations when a bug is submitted it is usually delegated to the developer who wrote the original code.  Paul Pagel’s
The Misnomer of Best Practices
One evening after sessions at the Better Software Conference, Dan North and I got into a discussion regarding the phrase ‘Best Practices’ and concluded that this term was actually a misnomer. Let’s take a non-software analogy; wearing a seat belt in
Glitch Watch - Gate change at ATL
So I was coming back from Atlanta yesterday and, as I arrived a bit early at the gate, settled in to read my RSS feeds. I picked a spot that was far enough away from the gate not to be too crowded, while at the same time allowing me to keep an eye o
The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight?
The Dreyfus Model shows the 5 stages of skill acquisition possible through experience of a subject. Created by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus in 1980 while researching AI, the model was popularized by Dr Patricia Benner in the mid Eighties in her work on
Glitch Watch - Locked out by software glitch
Residents living in a city-owned apartment complex in Nottingham, England, were locked out of their homes on Tuesday of this week after a new security system was installed. Property manager Nottingham City Homes was installing security upgrades, inc
Glitch Watch - Verizon published 12,500 unlisted numbers
Verizon blamed a software glitch this week for the fact that it published approximately 12,500 unlisted phone numbers in a Washington County, MD phone directory. The company stated that it is taking steps to make amends to affected customers, anywhe
Is Java Dying? - No Way!
After reading several blogs and comments on the demise of Java, I felt compelled to post some interesting facts. Only a small percentage of developers go to conferences like JavaOne. These people constitute the majority of those who read, write and
Product Announcement
After much thought, we have decided that selling Java development tools is not a viable business model for us. Several recent events have helped us reach this conclusion: At JavaOne this year, free tools completely dominated the sessions. The exhibi
Glitch Watch - Incorrect debt ratings at Moodys
As if the financial world wasn’t in enough turmoil already, it has been revealed that programmers at debt rating company Moody’s made a “coding error” that overrated several debt products in early 2007. The products affected
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iPhone 3G Only Looks Cheaper
Peterson(3G is designed to provide voice and high-speed mobile d wrote: 3G is designed to provide voice and high-speed mobile data using the cellular approach already proven to work in mobile phone networks. The biggest obstacle to implementing high speed wireless networks is...
Google Web Toolkit: Finally Java Has Been Put into JavaScript!
tomslot wrote: Regarding the GWT plugin for NetBeans 6.1 (GWT4NB): Just go to the menu option Tools->Plugins- >Available Plugins and search for GWT, then choose to install the plugin.
SOA or DOA
Chris Weiss wrote: This article exaggerates the performance and troubleshooting problems with SOA. Most of the time, simple logging is sufficient for identifying performance problems and transaction failures. Any technology that is misused will have performance problems. If ...
Python Creator Guido van Rossum to Present the Next-Generation Python 3000
unimpressed wrote: The sneering tone of this post says more about the writer than it does about the subject at hand ... and using what has to be the least flattering image I've ever seen of the man to add insult to injury is on the adolescent side of pathetic. Python, Ruby, ...
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NetBeans Innovators! Today Is Final Deadline for Winning $11500 Grants
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Mighty Google Misses
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The i-Technology World Celebrates 25th Anniversary of TCP/IP
Google's new-year special logo, which went live briefly as 2008 began, celebrated the 25th anniversa
Perforce Software Delivers State-of-the-Art Application Lifecycle Management
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