From the monthly archives: May 2010
Since a year I’ve been an owner of a Samsung Omnia with Windows Mobile OS 6.1 on it and I must say I’m a bit disappointed in Microsoft when it comes to application management. If you compare this software with Apple iPhone, BlackBerry or Android, they all have a better application management.
You can [...]
I hope I don’t have to convince you of the importance of unit testing… and if I do, just read this post from Adil Akhter on the importance of unit testing.
In Symfony, A lime test library has been included and makes it easy for us to do these kinds of tests.
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An issue free work environment doesn’t exist, lets face it, everybody has some issues on what his colleagues do or what is happing within 3 feet from your desk.
Some have the most obvious laughter, others have to tap on your desk every time they pass by, I even heard my brother in [...]
I recently read a book by Scott Berkun, a ex-microsoft project manager (Internet Explorer), about the mastering of project management and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised with it.
I have always been a bit skeptical about those kind of books, as most of them only contain a list of do’s and don’ts that everybody [...]
These are some interesting courses on programming methodology in Java, it’s nice you can follow them on YouTube. The teacher entertains us during the whole course and explains everything in a pragmatic way.
Looking back at my own time in school, there where only 1 or 2 teachers giving me the same interest as he does.
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In my experience it’s true what Mr Roam is talking about, it is very important to use sketches and minimal drawings to explain what you are saying. Everybody will understand your problem a lot faster and it is a fact that next time someone has to explain this problem, he or she will automatically reuse the sketch initially used [...]
It’s a cool commercial, but when I look at it the only thing that comes to mind is that people at Vodafone have to much spare time…
Thoughts on Google’s 20% time
With the rise of Google, no single tactic comes up more in innovation circles than their concept of 20% time. Simply put, employees get 1/5th of their time to work on projects of their own choosing. (more info can be found here)
And this:
William L. McKnight (11 November [...]
Form building, not basic forms containing only a name and a description, but forms that have a variety of influences, is complex.
Here is a presentation of Ryan Singer, about form creation based on a book by Christopher Alexander Notes on the Synthesis of Form.
If you are a developer, the best way to get the latest news or interesting links and references, is to follow some of the best developers around. I myself have a list of people I like to follow, some of them are quite known, others are not that famous but have some interesting things to [...]
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