Contents tagged with General Software Development
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In the year of 2005 Skynet launches a massive attack and wins the FIFA World Cup
Months ago the launch of Robotics Studio was announced so that by now many, many people should have developed their pet-robots (as for me, I've lost the touch a long time ago). To prove how versatile those robots are, Microsoft has just released Soccer Simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio, that allows robots to compete following the rules of RoboCup (whose motto "By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer" I'm not sure whether it makes me laugh or get nervous). For the time being, I'll take it by the lighter side: I hope some Ecuadorean software team develops a robot soccer team as good in RoboCup as our real soccer team is in the real soccer [8-|]. -
Shocking: Microsoft pays open source supporters
Now this is a place I would really like to work at. First thing that came to my mind: PHP as a front-end to a WCF business backend, second thing: Mono 2.0. I really hope Port 25 thrives!
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Summer of Python
is an object oriented dynamic language which has became popular of late (along with Ruby). Beta 2 of Python 2.5, the official implementation, has just been released. Further, beta 9 of IronPython, a .NET implementation, has also been released, on schedule with the plans of having a 1.0 release this summer. It seems like, more sooner than later, we'll have to learn a dynamic language so it's going to be a good idea to download IronPython and give it a try. -
In five years, Java EE will be the CORBA of the 21st Century
Richard Monson-Haefel is a noted J2EE author, in this article he says:
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From the Peculiar Ideas Departament: Compilr
Say you're away from home and just have to compile some lines of code to prove a theory, how do you do? Easy: browse to http://www.caller.me.uk/Compilr/, type or paste your lines and the code is compiled in a far and away server. It sounds like a strange proposition to me, but who knows, may be there are reams of programmers with Internet access that don't have a compiler at hand... Where's the money in the site? Advertising of course (Google is now generating some really weird spawn.) For the time being, they offer you C#, VB.NET, C, and Fortran compilers. Come to think of it, if they offer a few exotic languages like Lisp, Prolog, or APL, I may very well give it a try...
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What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps
Pay attention to this few lines of code:
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TechEd 2006 *live* presentations
TechEd 2006 started yesterday (and I finally didn't make it). Oh well, thanks to the Internet we can be up-to-date and much closer than not-being-there, for example we can watch the keynote delivered on Sunday afternoon and some other "home made" videos recorded in situ. We can also watch a webcasts series to be done live at TechEd from June 12 to June 16. See you at the Virtual TechEd!
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Friendly Web sites, design patterns, and metacognition
First of all, you just have to love the guys that created these register policies:
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C# Expression Evaluators
Warning: this is not the usual code sample ready to be cut and pasted in your homework due for tomorrow.
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The Art of Project Management
Today I'm going to make an obvious point: the stars in a software project are the programmers (well, the architects a little bit too [;)]) no doubt about it. But the scenario is not unlike that of a music concert: the stars are the singers and musicians for sure but in order for the concert to be a success you require of far more people in many different fields, some of them totally unrelated to music.