Archive for January, 2008
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
From today's post by Tim O'Reilly:
Beautiful Code, a collection of essays by master programmers about how they solved particularly hard problems, must have hit a nerve. It was our #9 bestselling title for the year, and the number one software engineering title industry-wide according to our analysis of Bookscan figures.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Florian and Adam opened the place up; Jeff and I were here 10 minutes later; Tony, Luke, and Yi Qing arrived in time for coffee, and DC and his hangover made it eight. Paul joined us for lunch (pizza... mm...); tests were written, bugs were found, tickets were updated, ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
10:00 am start; thirteen of us busying away. We're opening as many bugs as we're closing (thanks to the testing team), but it still feels like progress. Lebanese food for lunch; coffee all 'round, and our first engagement announcement (congrats, David!). I'm reminded (again) just how much ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Dmitri won the hippo for making the most contributions to the class last term. It's now devouring him:
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
It's now 10:29 EST, and the room is fuller:
Dave Wolever, Jeff Balogh, Dave Cooper, Luke Petrolekas, Blake Winton, and Adam Goucher are working on DrProject
Martin Williams, Florian Shkurti, and Tony Yiu are working on OLM
Yi Qing Sim is proofreading
Pardis Beikzadeh is working on UTest
David Chang is working on Flex (no ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Via David Janes, dataportability.org: the open standards stack for the ubiquitous sharing and remixing of data.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
http://www.thestar.com/article/288360 --- interesting read (as in, how did I miss half these stories?).
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Via Adam Goucher (who's thinking about their application to testing): Hugh MacLeod on social objects.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Optimistic version control systems like CVS and Subversion allow people to decouple their work: instead of simultaneously editing the master copy of a file (and stomping on one another's changes), each player changes a local copy, then merges it into the repository. In contrast, most ticketing systems still use the ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
My favorite books these days are Boynton's Your Personal Penguin and Pratchett's Where's My Cow?, but since this is a magazine for programmers, not parents, I'll turn my attention to six others: one very good, two useful, and three that missed the mark.
The first is Smith and Marchesini's The Craft ...
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