The Jolt Awards were announced last night. The list of winners is below. We had some particularly competitive categories this year (in Technical Books, I advise you to simply fill your shopping cart with the finalists). Most delightful, this was a year where there was some real innovation, which I'll …
more ...I started to write a post on version-control patterns ("How to pack your trunk") when I realized what a can of worms it was. Essentially, every time I wrote down "the way I've always done it" I realized that there were always trade-offs -- that what worked in some situations wouldn't …
more ...The Pragmatic Programmers have a very good sense of software developmet trends -- they're doing today what O'Reilly did in the early 90s. Coming in July from them is Joe Armstrong's Programming Erlang. Erlang is seen by programming language mavens as one of the real contenders for the crown of "most …
more ...I know that sounds like a some kind of Bayesian spam-evader, but apparently Edward Herrmann, a programmer at Colgate-Palmolive, and colleagues hacked their Wii controller to send messages to their Ruby On Rails application, which drove their SAP system (film after the jump). What a geek-tastic transcendance of normal categories …
more ...Of course, debates on the theoretical effectiveness of programming paradigms may be missing the point entirely, given the too-horrifying-to-be-true assertion that many programmer applicants cannot:
more ...Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the …
CodeGear has unveiled the first of their new development environments since their not-quite-spin-off from Borland. First is Delphi 2007 for Win32, which actually supports Vista Aero development and Ajax (as well as Win32 development). Second is their first new language in years -- Delphi for PHP. No one from CodeGear saw …
more ...It's been a good couple weeks for Ruby IDEs. First, Ruby In Steel was released. Pretty much simultaneously, ActiveState releasedKomodo 4 with support for Ruby.
Komodo is a significantly "weightier" IDE and Ruby is just one of the many languages it supports. It is, I suppose, more akin to …
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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