December 2006
11 posts
Tyler MacNiven’s documentary - "Kintaro Walks...
This is an hour-long documentary by Tyler MacNiven (he calls himself “Kintaro” in the video) about his “walking” expedition in Japan in 2004. He walks from the southern-most point in Japan all the way to the North. You would recognize the guy immediately if you watch “The Amazing Race” (for those who don’t, he and his partner recently won a million...
Mark Anders on Flash development
For years, developers have complained about designer-focused concepts in Flash like the timeline. Is Flex Builder deliberately a change from that? That’s why I quit Microsoft and went to Macromedia - the timeline! I’m a developer and for me there were dual realities. I would see amazing stuff done in Flash and then I would pick up the tool and literally every concept you have is wrong!...
Vista’s source control
I’d also like to sketch out how actual coding works on the Windows team. In small programming projects, there’s a central repository of code. Builds are produced, generally daily, from this central repository. Programmers add their changes to this central repository as they go, so the daily build is a pretty good snapshot of the current state of the product. In Windows, this model...
Kent Beck on XP
You code because if you don’t code, you haven’t done anything. You test because if you don’t test, you don’t know when you are done. You listen because if you don’t listen, you don’t know what to code or test. You design so you can keep coding and testing and listening indefinitely. I also like the way he thinks about the “purpose of testing”...
Espresso Ahead
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Espresso Ahead, originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.
Jeff Sutherland on a Scrum implementation at...
Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum and in this lecture he talks about a recent Scrum implementation at Google - Adwords team. I have been sort of reading a lot about Scrum lately. Actually what got me started was an article titled “Scrum and XP from the Trenches“ [pdf] in which a guy from a Swedish software firm talks about their experiences in implementing Scrum at their...
Phantom Sentinel
The Phantom Sentinel works by putting the difficulty we have in perceiving rapidly spinning objects to use. Think of a helicopter: the body is immobile and thus visible, but the blades are moving so fast that the eye sees them as only a vague blur. Tangren’s device works like a helicopter, except that the whole craft is nothing but the blades. Meanwhile, cameras mounted near the center of the...
Algorithmic trading amounts to a third of all US...
Investors trading shares of Ford Motor know there are certain events that cause the share price to rise or fall — sudden changes in gasoline prices, a labor strike at a parts supplier, a poor month for automobile sales, for example. Reuters NewsScope will allow investors to fine-tune their computers to scan live news feeds of Reuters coverage and watch for items affecting Ford. Then, through...
XP song!
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FeedBurner server room!
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IMG_2237, originally uploaded by allen074.
Modern Romance
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Modern Romance, originally uploaded by factoryjoe.