Tag Archives: development

It’s official: developers get better with age

July 5, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

- Number of coders drops significantly with age. Top developer numbers, at age 27, drop by half every 6-7 years.- Developers in their 40s answer roughly twice as much and ask half the questions compared to colleagues in their 20s. It seems younger generation learns and older generation teaches.- Quality of posts, i.e. upvotes earned by post, only slightly increases with age.- Seniors earn their high reputation by being more active than younger developers.

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zStack – heroku for mobile?

June 7, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

complete technology stack to power your mobile app’s backend

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Showoff – The easiest way to share localhost over the web.

April 21, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Share a project on your laptop using the ‘show’ command.
Showoff creates a tunnel between your laptop and the web.

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Guide for Starting iPhone and iOS Development

March 15, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Step 1: Equipment needed

Step 2: Prepare

Step 3: Get inspired

Step 4: Get your toes wet

Step 5: Learning the good stuff

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Hofstadter’s law

March 1, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Hofstadter’s Law was a part of Douglas Hofstadter’s 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. The law is a statement regarding the difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of any substantial complexity. It is often cited amongst programmers, especially in discussions of techniques to improve productivity, such as The Mythical Man-Month or extreme programming. The recursive nature of the law is a reflection of the uncertainty of amounted time.

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Marin Fowler’s Tradable Quality Hypothesis

February 21, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

“As you frame internal quality as tradable, you’ve lost.”

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Humans TXT: We Are People, Not Machines.

February 21, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

What is humans.txt?It’s an initiative for knowing the people behind a website.
It’s a TXT file that contains information about the different people who have contributed to building the website.

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http://www.valucon.de/documents/managing_softwareprojects.pdf

February 21, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Paper from 1970 largely (and ironically) credited with inventing the Waterfall software development methodology.

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To Engineer is Human

February 21, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

“Software engineering is the science and art of designing and writing, with economy and elegance, applications, libraries, systems, and other similar programs so that they can safely resist the forces to which they may be subjected.”

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Chronon – Time Traveling Debugger and Recorder for Java

February 14, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

A “flight data recorder” for Java programs which can record every line of code executed inside a program and save it to a file on the disk. The file can be shared among developers and played back in our special time travelling debugger to instantly find the root cause of an issue.This also means that no bugs ever need to be reproduced!A Time Travelling Debugger, with a novel UI that plugs seamlessly into Eclipse, which allows you to playback the recordings. It not only steps back and forth but also to any point in the execution of your program.

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