After only a few months at Google, Java founder James Gosling has left the search engine giant to go to a small startup company specializing in ocean-based robotics. Nice way to spend retirement… via James Gosling Leaves Google – Slashdot.
READ MORE »I understand that change takes time, and there is always a delay between planning a change, and the implementation. But with Triage, time is our enemy. We currently have 2,598 UNCO bugs in Firefox that haven’t been touched in 150 days. That is almost 2600 bugs that have not been touched since Firefox 4 was [...]
READ MORE »To put it bluntly, the date/time libraries in .NET are flawed. From the beginning there were no concepts of time zones or really any sort of universal time. As a result most libraries were designed to accept a DateTime class and left the developer to guess if the value should be in local or UTC [...]
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I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, [...]
READ MORE »Transactional File Manager is a .NET API that supports including file system operations such as file copy, move, delete, append, etc. in a transaction. It’s an implementation of System.Transaction.IEnlistmentNotification (works with System.Transactions.TransactionScope). via .NET Transactional File Manager.
READ MORE »SpecFlow aims at bridging the communication gap between domain experts and developers by binding business readable behavior specifications to the underlying implementation. Our mission is to provide a pragmatic and frictionless approach to Acceptance Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development for .NET projects today. via SpecFlow – Pragmatic BDD for .NET.
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Want you back us to the mainframes?! Red Hat CEO thinks the desktop is becoming a legacy application | ZDNet.
READ MORE »Dave Farley co-authored “Continuous Delivery”, an excellent book in the Martin Fowler signature series, which goes into great detail about the evolution of Continuous Integration, and how to achieve continuous delivery (or continuous deployment) using “build pipelines”. via 8 Principles of Continuous Delivery | Javalobby.
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The short form of my post is that while patents (even software patents) are a good idea in principle, in practice they have turned into an unmitigated disaster and would be better scrapped. Cannot disagree… Thanks, Martin. via Martin Fowler on Software Patents | Agile Zone.
READ MORE »In the last few years the tooling available to .net developers for unit testing in general has matured, these are some of the tools that I either used or heard of via TDD tools for .net developers « roundcrisis.Find().
How to make domain independent from db4objects via Db4objects Domain And DAL – CodeProject.
HTC tells Apple to try competing, rather than suing Fear, uh? Related articles HTC "disappointed" at Apple’s lack of fair play (9to5mac.com) HTC calls out Apple for competing in courts, not on products (slashgear.com) Apple using lawsuits instead of ‘competing fairly,’ says HTC (electronista.com)
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