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Software

LINK: Do and Don’ts of development

January 13, 2009Link

Mads Kristensen has a nice checklist of Do This items for high quality websites.
Jeff Atwood has a list of Don’t Do This items for general development (based on the Common Weakness Enumeration list)
Technorati Tags: Jeff Atwood,Mads Kristensen,Advice

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Software Craftsmanship

November 13, 2008Developers

My good friend and colleague at Elcom, Angus McDonald (aka Falkayn), and I have been chatting about ways to improve the software processes at work. He’s taking over many of the responsibilities I’ve held – now that I’m moving on – and is a considered thinker.
Angus is much more Agile focussed than me, and [...]

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Parallel Computing

October 25, 2008Main

Boring history prologue
I started playing with ‘computers’ back in the days when they came with 3K of memory (Vic 20 anyone?). And thank goodness I was too young to have experienced the punch card era… They quickly scaled up so that by the time I was at uni, 16MB of RAM was becoming standard. Fast [...]

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.NET OpenID project chugs away

April 10, 2008Link

There’s a lot of noise about OpenID (it’s great, we can’t live without it, it’s safer, it’s the future, etc, etc) but very little actually happening (in terms of real adoption). TechCrunch has had a few thought provoking posts on the matter – decide for yourself whether OpenID has become little more than a marketing [...]

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Angus McDonald discusses Watir

April 8, 2008Link

Angus gives an excellent overview of how to get up and running with Watir, a open source testing utility. Watir is basically about automating web browsers in order to help test web sites.
This is something we’ve been struggling with at Elcom. Like most web companies we end up having to do a lot of manual [...]

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What do I spend my time on?

April 7, 2008Link

It’s always interesting to see what you spend time on the most… but tracking it can be hard. There’s various programs available of course, but you never really know how accurate they are. Does it count the idle time you spend reading an email on screen, and how does it tell that you weren’t actually [...]

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Get ClearContext for free

March 14, 2008Link

I’ve been using ClearContext for the last two months and I love it. But it costs over $100 (Australian). That’s a lot to pay. But I paid it and haven’t regretted it.
However, what if you could get a license for free? Well you can. Check out the ClearContext blog for details – you just have [...]

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