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Software Engineering
The craft: testing, tooling, languages, delivery practice, and building software that survives contact with production.
17 pieces, grouped by format
July 27, 2009
March 10, 2006
February 5, 2006
Calculating reliability in software
My friend Andy Glover (finally!) started his blog and he’s got a great first article on software reliability. He’s already a published author and writes for online magazines but as an expert in software quality it’s great to…
February 3, 2006
Waterfall 2006
I nearly busted a gut reading about the Waterfall 2006 conference that my friend Suvajit emailed me this morning. If you’ve been doing large-scale software development for more than 5 minutes you’ll be rolling with laughter too.
January 29, 2006
Oracle offers its JSF UI components to Apache
Oracle ADF JSF Components is now open source. If you’ve been looking for a reason to go to JSF, this may be the reason to do it. They have a long list of rich UI components available in their library.
December 26, 2005
Free icons for developers
famfamfam.com offers some great, free, icons in friendly web image formats. Great Christmas present for yoursefl if you’re a developer.
December 19, 2005
D.C./Baltimore lead nation in tech postings on job Web site
Anyone looking for a job? Come on over to my neck of the woods: D.C./Baltimore lead nation in tech postings on job Web site
December 3, 2005
What puts the 2 in Web 2.0?
Check out this slick document that the guys at ActivePath put together on Web 2.0: What_puts_the_2_in_Web_20.pdf (application/pdf Object).
December 1, 2005
WikiMatrix / Wiki Feature Comparison
A wiki is a great way to do project communication and engineering collaboration but sometimes it’s hard to know which one to pick. The WikiMatrix can help you decide.
November 28, 2005
FreePatentsOnLine.com
I think the domain name says it all! One feature I like is their RSS feed that shows new patent filings and awards. If you follow new patents like I do, it’s a nice service.
November 4, 2005
Portal-enabling non-portlet web apps
I’ve been involved in number of portal projects this year and one of the problems that all my customers complain about is the inability to integrate non-portlet based webapps into their portals. I just ran across this open…
October 14, 2005
IntelliJ IDEA vs. Eclipse
I’m not sure i completely concur with Tim’s post on the basic difference between IDEA and Eclipse but as a huge fan of IntelliJ’s IDE I found that it did have some truth to it. Tim says:
July 19, 2005
Problems with HTML and CSS
I have been using HTML and CSS for years and since most browsers are starting to support CSS fairly well I’ve been dropping HTML formatting in favor of CSS formatting. However, there are problems that creep up and I’ve found…
May 12, 2005
Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer’s Fonts
Stop hunting for the right fonts for your IDE: go right to this article.
December 6, 2004
Offshoring: a challenge or opportunity?
Although we all have mixed feelings about offshoring of our technology jobs, most of the data that’s available is generally anecdotal. I just ran across this report from the British Computer Society (BCS) about offshoring of…
May 30, 2004
A network music player that doesn’t look like a box
I’ve been searching for a nice music player that would connect to my existing tunes on my PC and play them wirelessly. I’ve seen many offered but they all look like computer devices and the room I want to put the player in…
May 2, 2004
Put a slick calendar on your desktop
I just discovered a neat little free utility called Rainlendar that can read my Microsoft Outlook calendar and put a {{popup rainlendar.gif rainlendar 377×174}}slick transparent window on my desktop that shows my schedule.…