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Agile development isn't just for software anymore. Even NPR is using it to develop programs like TED Radio Hour [ITworld]
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One Methodology to rule them all, One Methodology to find them,
One Methodology to bring them all and in Scrum bind them.
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In this installment we talk to Vanessa Hurst, founder of Developers for Good, co-founder of Girl Develop It!, and a consultant and advisor to startups. Our continuing series in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves.
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In a significant divergence from traditional fault-tolerance approaches, ROC emphasizes recovery from failures rather than failure-avoidance. This philosophy is motivated by the observation that even the most robust systems still occasionally encounter failures due to human operator error, transient or permanent hardware failure, and software anomalies resulting from "Heisenbugs" or software aging. Fixing Murphy's Law.
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Let's say you have a large computer system and you want to measure it for performance or efficiency. You want metrics. You want pretty pictures that tell you what's going on. You start looking at graphing libraries and databases. I think this is exactly backward. You have to start with measurement. It's shockingly easy to fool yourself and you really have to get it right. Bad data looks very much like useful data and it's worse than having no data at all. Understanding the difference between measurements and metrics.
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Windows 8 apps can be designed and coded using HTML/CSS/JS just like PhoneGap apps can. And with very little effort you can use your skill and existing resources to crank out a sleek, modern looking Windows 8 style app in no time. PhoneGap and Windows 8 development – more similar than you realize.
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After the hacking of a former Gizmodo writer’s Apple account, a lot of discussion has been going on concerning turning on two-factor authentication on services like Google Apps. I absolutely recommend doing so, but I also think that’s not enough. A good majority of the people who read this blog are creators of webapps of some description. It’s time for us to start building two-factor authentication into our products. 7 well-documented methods of implementing two-factor authentication.
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Shameless plug, but there's an article for that!
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This page introduces a compact and efficient implementation of Bresenham's algorithm to plot lines, circles, ellipses and Bézier curves. A detailed documentation of the algorithm and more program examples are availble, as well as four C-program examples. A simple implementation to plot lines, circles, ellipses and Bézier curves.
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Message Closed
modified 9-Aug-12 15:41pm.
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Go ahead and write the article, I'd be interested.
In settings like creating a bitmap in e.g. Silverlight where basically only a SetPixel is available the Bresenham algorithms are still quite relevant. In Silverlight Bitmap drawing is quite a bit faster than the WPF type of graphics. The WriteableBitmapEx[^] project was created for this purpose.
Wout
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So I started the GNOME project at that point in August 1997. The draft for the announcement was sent to various friends of mine which included Richard Stallman, Marc Ewing, Elliot Lee, Erik Troan, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mathis. When the project was ready Federico and I sent the announcement of the creation of the GNOME projects to a few mailing lists: The GIMP mailing list, the Guile mailing list, the GNU project announcement mailing list and comp.os.linux.announce. Federico and I started developing the GNOME libraries on our spare time. He was still mostly working on the GIMP and I was still mostly working on the X11 IRIX emulation code for Linux on the SGI/Indy. We setup the makefiles to mimic the Gtk+ setup.... Miguel de Icaza tells the story of GNOME.
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It has taken nearly a decade, but SCO’s hard-fought but ultimately ludicrous legal campaign against Linux is finally winding down, seemingly for good. The company, now know as The SCO Group (TSG), filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection this week, conceding that there’s no longer any hope of a reorganization under Chapter 11. Its only option now is liquidation. Both feet in the grave and still swinging wildly at IBM for allegedly “devaluing” its version of Unix.
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SCO had the greatest collection of douchebags.
I am surprised it is still alive.
Somebody please drive a stake through its heart.
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Vivic wrote: Somebody please drive a stake through its heart.
Maybe a silver bullet too 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I did some research into what they were doing, and had to think "WTF? That makes no sense!". I seriously think they were just money/power crazed nutcases with no moral or common sense. And on the topic of 'Common' sense, why is it so rare these days? I think the name should be changed to 'uncommon sense'.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Zac Greve wrote: . And on the topic of 'Common' sense, why is it so rare these days?
I don't know, but I think exactly the same when I hear about more patent bullshit, especially from Crapple and Microsoft.
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True.
And what is your sig supposed to be? I have wondered about it for some time.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Only people who are interested in electronics are likely to recognise it 
It's a circuit diagram[^] (and another link[^]) of the tuning circuit[^] of a radio
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With very little effort and cost you can set up an automated and trustworthy backup system. I can only assume most people don’t back up their data because they are either lazy, unsure where to start, don’t see a need, or all of the above. Assuming Mat Honan’s horror story gives you the motivation for backing up, here are some tips on how to set up a rock-solid backup system. This is Mac-centric, but Windows has very good built-in backup tools, too.
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Shawn Blanc wrote:
I always buy LaCie enclosures because they’re reliable and good looking.
I buy Western Digital drives because I like their logo. (And they've never died on me.)
/ravi
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The big news is Pay with Square being deployed across Starbucks — and it is, indeed, big. At the moment, Pay with Square is accepted at around 40,000 locations — mostly neighborhood businesses such as independent coffee shops, restaurants and beauty salons. The agreement with Starbucks will put it in a major nationwide chain for the first time, and therefore puts it in closer competition with Google Wallet, which is already accepted at Home Depot, Office Depot, Starbucks rival Peet’s, Macy’s, RadioShack, 7-Eleven and other major merchants. But Google Wallet has a major gotcha: You need one of a handful of Android phones with built-in NFC technology. Mul-ti-pass. Mul-ti-paaass.
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At Build, we’ll dive deep to cover all the areas you care about. How to design and build beautiful Windows 8 apps. How to sell your apps in the Windows 8 Store and make money. And much more. It sold out in an hour, but you'll still be able to watch online.
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Alsup calls for disclosure of any media getting paid to cover this summer's trial [ITworld]
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Today I’m happy to announce the debut of the Windows Phone Dev Center, the new online home for Windows Phone developers. The site, an evolution of our retired App Hub developer portal, is designed to provide everything you need to build, publish, and manage apps for Windows Phones around the world. The result of months of careful planning and attention to your feedback, it has new features to help make Windows Phone app development faster and more profitable. App Hub is dead. Long live the Dev Center.
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