Development Notes, News and Ramblings
Andrew Savikas over at O’Reilly has a short note on the bankruptcy of Amp’d Mobile. I guess I could start a collection of blog posts about companies with promising revenue models that where so badly mismanaged that they either made themselves irrelevant, curtailed their ability to compete or just really put themselves out of business. […]
Sam Gentile has a lengthy post about a recent essay called RubyMicrosoft by none other than Martin Fowler. Both items are excellent reads. Sam underscores the chasm that exists between certain elements of the MS Development community. Although I do want to add one point - I have used Dependency Injection and ORM for almost […]
This week I have been working with NxTV, the premier supplier of in room entertainment for hotels. The product sold by NxTV is essentially a small computer that is attached to the hotel tv set. Customers can order movies or internet access on it. The set top box talks to a couple of servers and […]
OK that was goofy. But it shouldn’t distract from Goijko’s post describing his experience of using Selenium and Fitnesse together to run some very nice functional tests of web sites. To me this is a great example because software testing can be a bit of a chore. Sure unit tests are nice, but how often […]
Red Gate Software has an open beta for the next version of its flagship product. This new version has improvements such as
* Synching to and from scripts, for version control
* UI improvements for managing comparison projects
* Various other UI improvements
If you are interested in beta testing, contact me and I will put you in touch […]
Who can blame the guy. He has a product that supports a bunch of different database servers. So consequently he is very familiar with his subject matter.
He says: “…Scientists should stick with science. What they invent and discover should be moved to the real world by engineers, not by scientists as well. Because, if […]
The following are paraphrased conversations that actually took place. This is not made up. If you find yourself part of conversations like this, it maybe time to look for other opportunities. As much as we developers like to discuss software anti-patterns and quality issues, there are so many other aspects of running a software business […]
I have to admit that my post has nothing at all to do with the Dickens book “ A tale of two cities” from which the illustration has been borrowed. Yet I think there is some merit to this flight of creative association considering that the post does deal with a comparative account of two […]