Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
A little more than a year ago I wrote Recommended reading: “The Book Of JOSH: Scala In The Enterprise”. Since then, the original article was removed from the author's blog and I didn't know of any copies.
The other day I was browsing already read articles in Google Reader, and found ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
It seems like too few people registered for Øresund Agile 2010:
As painful as it is, we have deemed it necessary to cancel this years conference.
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Øresund Agile is short for...
the meeting point for Agile Software Development in Scandinavia
I expect great talks and workshops. For example, Johanna Rothman will be speaking!
By the way, Lean Magazine #5 is available for download!
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Yesterday and today I have scripted a small web interface for remote control of XBMC using its HTTP API. (BTW, That API could really use a redesign!)
It's actually just a page showing a screen shot and the name of the file that is currently playing, together with some commands to ...
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Maybe some of you have heard me ranting about this already?
I'm not productive enough in C++ and I feel too limited by Java
A large chunk of Java frameworks seem to serve no other purpose than to workaround limitations in Java
I believe (and hope!) that Java will cease to be the ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
My TaskFreak hacking goes on. In Sweden we often use ISO 8601 format for dates (year-month-day), but TaskFreak does not offer this out of the box.
Most date formatting comes from the DATE FORMATS section in include/config.php but even after changing these date formats I still don't get all dates displayed ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Ward Cunningham tweeted a link to an ad for an Agile Ruby Developer at AboutUs, Inc. Out of curiosity I took a look and it sounds like a fantastic opportunity for someone!
What I liked most about the job ad was the last part:
We’re hiring you for your mind. Please showcase ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
I can't remember how I originally found the link (was it in someone's tweet?) but I managed to find it again in order to share it here. The message may seem silly in retrospect, but I think it was enlightening. The article is called Sometimes, The Better You Program, The ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
I wrote this function recently when I could not find it in the PHP function list. Please provide any optimizations you discover!
function permute($array)
{
$results = array();
if (count($array) == 1)
{
$results[] = $array;
}
else
{
for ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Martin Fowler writes about DynamicTypeCheck:
Recently some of our developers ran into the accusation that with a dynamic language like ruby you use so many dynamic type checks that you end up effectively writing your own type system. So they thought, since we've written a ...
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