From “What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider’s Retrospective” by Ben Fathi: The three year release cycle meant we rarely knew what the competitive landscape and external ecosystem would look like when we started a release […] What we thought we knew three or four years ago when we planned a given OS release was […]
Tag Archives: development
The Practical Developer Book Covers
Here’s a few of the book covers @ThePracticalDev has been tweeting: Worth a read if you’d ask me 😂 More covers over at @ThePracticalDev
Software Development Explained With Cars
Software Development Explained With Cars →
STF – Control and manage real Smartphone devices from your browser
STF (or Smartphone Test Farm) is a web application for debugging smartphones, smartwatches and other gadgets remotely, from the comfort of your browser. Wow, looks good! STF | Smartphone Test Farm →
Software Development
At 6y/o my software development training began when my dog went missing & I followed his tracks 5mi into the woods. He was in the garage. — Rebecca Slatkin (@RebeccaSlatkin) December 23, 2014
Technical debt 101
Every time you don’t write software based on the best possible practices and understanding of the business domain, you incur it in a technical debt. This debt keeps increasing over time, just like an interest, because whoever has to change something has to deal with the imperfect concepts you codified on the first occasion. If […]
Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
A “How Long Is the Coast of Britain?” alike answer to estimating how long software development will take. Let’s take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit our friends in Newport Beach. The line is about 400 miles long; we can walk 4 miles per hour for 10 hours […]
Blame the Implementation, Not the Technique
Building great experiences on the web isn’t getting any easier. We need all the tools we can get. Don’t discredit them simply because someone uses them poorly. From Blame the Implementation, Not the Technique →
xip.io – Wildcard DNS for any IP address.
xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is 10.0.0.1. Using xip.io: 10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 www.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 mysite.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 …and so on. You can use these domains to access virtual hosts on your development web […]
LÖVE
LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It’s free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The aforementioned Mari0 and Ortho Robot are built in LÖVE. You might also want to check out some handy samples if you’re going to take a dive into LÖVE/Lua. […]