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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What languages and frameworks are on your radar today... and tomorrow?
Still learning Python - a nice but boring language. I like Perl better, crazy as it sounds.
Also C++ 11.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What languages and frameworks are on your radar today... and tomorrow?
Java and Android.
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Norm .droid wrote: Java and Android.
At least do yourself a favor and ditch Eclipse. They introduced something based on IntelliJ: Android Studio[^]
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I tried it when first announced. I like IntelliJ for normal java development; but calling that release of Android Studio pre-alpha would have been generous. After wasting about 90 minutes of my life I ragequit and swore it off until at least 2 major releases in the future.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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At the moment its .net but then I write in house software where I work and Windows 8 is a very very long way off (years more than likely).
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Many years ago, back in Uni, I saw 2 guys in a computer lab writing a whole programming assignment without running it even once. The program was of relatively decent size written in C and consequently there were hundreds of compilation errors. That’s so silly, I thought.... After graduation I used to be a C++ programmer. The syntax sometimes was quite tricky and you would often compile after every new line of code. Sometimes, you would dare to write a whole function, just to find 10 compilation errors. Since then the way I code has changed with help of modern IDE... Do IDEs help you code better, or just keep up with ever more complicated systems?
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Interesting the C# questions are not as common. Java seemed to be on the ropes at one time, but has had a resurgence. The weakness of C# may be an indication of the bad strategic moves the Microsoft has recently made in basically eliminating support of Silverlight, and making an OS (Windows 8) that does not provide precieved enhancement for desktop users. Is Android the future. Maybe. Meanwhile I am a C# programmer working with WPF.
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I avoid IDEs whenever I can.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Do IDEs help you code better
I like a good IDE - just haven't seen one since VS 2003.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: whole programming assignment without running it even once.
A girl I worked with would start editing in the morning and only compile her code late in the afternoon. Astonishingly, her compile failure rate was really very low which is a testament I suppose to her ability to master the methods and syntax, all without Intellisense. Quite incredible how she could do that.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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At the age of 13 I wrote ~500 lines of Sinclair BASIC over 5 to 6 hours one Saturday without running it to check it. When I did run it there were 2 syntax errors, just typos which I fixed then and there.
The code then ran without error and did exactly what I expected.
I knew that was a very special day and nothing like that would probably ever happen again.
It was 20 years before with the help of an IDE I could hope to write 500 lines of boilerplate C++ in a day with as few mistakes. I'm not sure if I've ever done it but I've probably got close on a few occasions.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Ever wondered how the pro’s physically manage to make a module? Well ok, you can get a fancy pick and place machine or send off for someone to assemble your module, but you can do it by hand. It is not as hard as expected. As part of a .NET Gadgeteer hands on event at the Modern Jago in Shoreditch we were delighted to have Justin Wilson from Ingenuity Micro attend and show us how things are done (www.ingenuitymicro.com). He has designed and built an nice collection of .NET Gadgeteer modules and mainboards and expects to have them available shortly. Old-school .NET hacking... with solder.
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Code review is a tricky business. Code is full of hidden mines that lay dormant while you test just to explode in a debris of stack trace at the most inopportune time – when its in the hands of your users. The many times I’ve run into such mines just reinforce how important it is to write code that is intention revealing and to make sure assumptions are documented via asserts. Such devious code is often the most innocuous looking code. We are miners, code bug miners. To the code base we must go...
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When I use the term “enterprise” to describe software, I typically mean “software that helps people get work done more efficiently.” In this sense, Angry Birds and your favorite Twitter client are not enterprise applications. A Twitter client that has additional features to facilitate and track a company’s social engagement, on the other hand, might fall into the enterprise category. An application that is used in a call center to track incoming support requests is definitely “enterprise”. A system that connects several “legacy” systems and presents employees with a unified interface and saves 1000s of man-years every month of application context switching? Enterprise. Do you write "enterprise JavaScript"? Tell us about it.
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I remember how in University my photography class and I struggled to grasp exposure and how it worked. We had exercises where for hours on end we were asked to "play" with the settings and get a feel for what they do. I don't like getting a "feel" for something. I like knowing how it works.... The trick was learning what each of the vertices afforded and cost you. That was the key to our DSLR simulator. Smile for the Canvas.
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Haswell is Intel’s new family of processors targeted at the PC and server market. With Haswell Intel has designed a processor suited to new PC form factors – laptops no thicker than 25mm, PC/tablet hybrids, pure tablets and all-in-one PCs. In particular Intel has targeted the fourth generation chip at serving what it calls the ‘ultrabook’ market. Intel defines ultrabooks as mobile computers thinner than 25mm, with touchscreen and voice control as standard and possibly convertible into either a tablet or laptop. Everything you need to know about the fourth generation of PC processors from Intel.
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Microsoft researchers say they have come up with a novel approach to boost the accuracy of speech recognition and rev up the speed in which it's rendered by creating a computation model that mimics the way the brain works. By applying so-called deep neural networks to speech recognition, Microsoft researchers claim that users in the United States, composing a text message or searching via Bing with their voices, will see results twice as fast as they did with Microsoft's previous technology. And the researchers say accuracy has improved by 15 percent. Earn more sessions by sleeving.
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Much of what I’ve heard when I hear about UX is: How do we arrange everything on the screen so that a user can figure it out and quickly accomplish their goals? How do we make use of graphic design, layout, text, interactivity, affordances, animation and so on to make things easier for the user? Lately I’ve start learning to build electronics with Arduino and it’s made me much more sympathetic to the designers of simple hardware. How much can you convey with a single button and lights?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: How much can you convey with a single button and lights?
Depends on how many lights... I have ... let me see ... 1296000 available here to use in the UI. Seems to work ok for me.
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Microsoft is reaching out to two main audiences this year at Build, said Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism Group: The existing Win32, line-of-business/commercial developer community and the startup community. "We need a good conversation with that community," said Guggenheimer about the existing .Net developer base, many of whom have felt disenfranchised by Microsoft's recent developer push toward HTML/JavaScript. Going to Build? What do you hope to see?
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Some days... some days it's frustrating to be on the web. We're compiling C++ into JavaScript and running Unreal in the browser but at the same time, here in 2013, we're still making the same mistakes. And by we, I mean, the set of web developers who aren't us, right Dear Reader? Because surely you're not doing any of these things. All of these are solvable problems. They aren't technically hard, or even technically interesting. 9 lazy problems often found in web apps.
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Yes! Though (in reference to 404 redirects), I will say that the redirect file we have at my company is already several thousand lines long. Can't wait until we move to MVC (supposing we do) and I can create a vanity URL component (based on MVC routing) that can use a database lookup to see destinations for vanity URL's. Then I can just build a simple user control into the CMS so anybody who wants to make a vanity URL can, without any developer intervention.
I can dream, can't I?
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You're such a silly little Dreamer![^]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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On Apr 17, 2012 Jordan Mechner released the source code of Prince of Persia. Even though it is the Apple II version written in 6502 assembly language, it was a pleasant experience to dive in the code of that mythical game: As usual there were many fascinating sofware wizardries to discover. The Apple II apparent poor environment for game programming was actually ground to unmatched innovation and creativity : From self-modifying code, in-house bootloader, clever floppy disc format to skewing lookup tables: Prince Of Persia features engineering treasures in every modules. You - and this code - are the only obstacle between Jaffar and the throne.
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