Scott Hanselman goes ga-ga for the SideShow API, the Vista functions for auxiliary displays. When I was first told about SideShow quite a while ago, the emphasis was on displays embedded in the outer shell of the notebook, just as clamshell phones often have a little aux display on their …
more ...Wesner Moise points to "generalized regular expression matching" as a moderately hard problem that might serve as the basis for comparing programming languages and approaches. He says "Microsoft's implementation of regular expression matching over strings is spread across 24 files and 14,455 lines of code including comments and whitespace …
more ...Tim O'Reilly posts his always-intriguing quarterly analysis of the tech book sector.
Joe Gregorio interprets the 53% growth in sales of Ruby-based books as evidence that there is no "next Java" or "next framework." I'm sympathetic with his thesis, but I'm not sure that 53% growth counts as any kind …
more ...Andrew Binstock shares the advice he gives when vendors call to ask why they didn't become finalists.
more ...Alan Zeichick's proposal of an organizational Threading Maturity Model is an excellent contribution. As with object-orientation, it does not suffice for a single person to have mastery or near-mastery; the average ability of the team must be fair in order to maintain quality, chaos can be wrought by just one …
more ...My latest in SD Times is up, in which I decide to stop being polite about WS-*.
more ...Sorry about the "Service Unavailable"s throughout the day. My post on "Top 10 Things I've Learned About Computers From The Movies and Any Episode of '24'" got >1800 Diggs today. My ISP called me in the middle of the afternoon and said that my site was consuming 100% CPU …
more ...I'm the moderator of the "Development Environments" category of the Jolt Awards and this year the finalists are:
Development Environments
This makes for …
more ...Change and Configuration Management
AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
Automated Build Studio (AutomatedQA)
FLEXnet Connect (Macrovision)
Perforce: the Fast Software Configuration (Perforce Software)
Team Foundation Server (Microsoft Corporation)
CA Wily Introscope ChangeDetector (CA / Wily Technology)
Collaboration Tools
Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
Code Collaborator (Smart Bear Software)
Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)
NetBeans …
more ...Books (Practical/General Developer Interest)
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (Addison-Wesley) by Alistair Cockburn
Catastrophe Disentanglement (Addison-Wesley) by E. M. Bennatan
Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Apress) by Eric Sink
Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
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