When Software Development was killed, I predicted that Dr. Dobb's wouldn't change markedly. Boy, was I wrong. Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Erickson and Publisher Stan Barnes clearly decided that the time had come to create what is essentially a new magazine: I don't think Dobb's has changed this much since at least …
more ...One of the cable channels (FX, I think) has been playing "The Core" in medium rotation lately. I've been trying to expose myself to it in small amounts, to inoculate myself and accept it as cheesy "so bad it's good" fun(ref. "The Fast and the Furious": One of my …
more ...InfoWorld's Tom Yager wrote a column on the benefits of native code, but then went off the deep end with:
more ...Here's a native code prediction that's way under your radar: We'll see more use of assembly language. ...Developers coding for new, controlled deployments can afford to set high requirements that …
When I feel listless, I sometimes try to whet my brain by rubbing it on quantum mechanics, which requires math that's absurdly difficult for a dilettante to understand. For years I've tinkered at implementing a simulator for programming quantum computers and really haven't gotten anywhere. Well, now I can use …
more ...The Catalogue of Variable Frequency and Single-Resistance-Controlled Oscillators Employing A Single Differential Difference Complementary Current Conveyor which I imagine is self-explanatory to electrical engineers. Silver went to Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for Multiscaling Excited-State Direct Dynamics in Photochemistry. Bronze prizes went to two things that I could actually understand: A multi-population …
more ..."Java in a Nutshell" weighs in at 1264 pages. Matt Croyden, sez:
[Y]our programming language just might be complicated when you have trouble telling the difference between its Nutshell book and a telephone book.
[via James Robertson]
This is somewhat unfair, as the bulk of "JiaN" is a library …
more ...According to "How UML Is Used," an article in the May 2006 issue of CACM, the UML diagrams that most commonly "provide new info" above-and-beyond use-case narratives are:
Interestingly, "usage rates are not well explained by how much new information is provided." Statecharts, the …
more ...::: {style="direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-left:0in;width:5.0305in"} ::: {style="direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-left:0in;width:5.0013in"} Getting Things Done With OneNote 12 :::
::: {style="direction:ltr;margin-top:.0493in;margin-left:0in;width:1.5041in"} Tuesday, July 11, 2006
8:23 AM :::
::: {style="direction:ltr;margin-top:.0722in;margin-left:0in …
more ...According to an article in the May 2006 CACM?quoting Peter Drucker, "no more than one in 100 patents earn enough to pay back its development costs and patent fees, and no more than one in 500 recover all its expenses."
more ...With all my AI posts lately, I'm sorry I hadn't realized that the May 2006 issue of the CACM had a theme on the language-action perspective, a critique by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores that dates from 1986 whose essential point the CACM summarizes neatly:
more ...[S]killful action always occurs …