I have worked on a number of big projects in a number of organisations and 'coding standards' are one of those issues that are always contentious and divisive. Even in my current job I have been pestered by individuals who insist that K&R style indenting is 'our policy'. These same individuals seem to spend more time on these relatively trivial matters than actually co-operating effectively and maturely in our collaborative efforts.
I think team communication and an environment that nurtures and repects all members' opinions and contributions is the most fundamental aspect of successful software development. Of course decisions need to be made and here is where you will need some benevolent despot or despots to act. But these decisions should be made after consulting with the group.
I would forget about coding standards for now and concentrate on your development process, namely how do we decide, communicate, feedback etc in order to get the job done. When all members of the team feel they can contribute effectively to this process you'll be amazed at how productive they will be and how easily they will accommodate slight differences in coding standards.
Having said all that, you could of course all agree that code will be commented and use certain methodolgies, components, etc. But these will be easy to do if the group comunicates well.
Now if you want do some ogling of the fascinating moguling Who give the irritating adverts from the britches of the fatcats Who put the software on the desktops on the punters From the boonies of the harem of the court of King Ridiculous, You're too late! Because they've just... passed... out!
I've been noticing a lot of this in recent months. As you read through the article notice what look like hyperlink references to words in the article body. Actually they are so called sponsored links. Well they're very cheeky links to their sponsors advertisements. I suppose they'll trick you at least once;)
blu-ray osd: Attention you have caused your blu-ray player to execute an illegal instruction and you will be permanently shutdown. If you have not caused this please ignore our illegal instructions. Have a nice day.
Anybody who receives a lot of SPAM (you know who you are!) would need to spend countless hours every day choosing to opt out of future SPAM. The process is consequently fundamentally flawed and clearly favours SPAMmers. Imagine the same system with cold callers at your front door. You would have to open the door, hear what they have to say before deciding that you didn't in fact want strangers knocking on your door whenever they wanted.
It is surprising to hear MS objecting to opt in systems though. It does suggest some conflicts of interests. On the one hand they claim that SPAM is annoying, wasteful and destructive and yet here we hear that they support the 'right' of companies to legitimately market to 'customers' in an unsolicited manner.
Another rather sinister aspect of a lot of SPAM today is that many includedembedded URLs which when activated (either by clicking or just opening the email) attempt to open the source web page, thereby quietly confirming that you are in fact a real person. So in these cases, opt out is too late.
But where does the electricity come from? If it is solar powered or perhaps nuclear (with its attendant risks) then maybe there could be a reduction in greenhouse gas emission. If the power is coal/oil generated then the source of the emission is just somewhere else. It just becomes a zero sum game but the politicians can sell it as a environmentally friendly solution.
Darl writes...SCO Allows You to Focus on Your Core Competency - A popular animation
on the Internet features a guy named Steve, the Linux Super Villain.
During the course of the 60 second animation, he describes his work
with Linux stating, "First you have to config it, then write some
shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your
kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..."
While the animation is designed to be humorous, it's not far from the
truth. If you're adopting Linux, get prepared to go into the
operating system business because that's exactly the path you will be
taking.
One of the primary reasons customers choose SCO is that they don't
want to be an operating system vendor. They want to be free to manage
their businesses, and leave the operating system details to SCO and
our army of resellers, support engineers, and product development
personnel.
If you are going to install and maintain an OS Darl, chances are you'll need to...
install it
configure it
make it secure
keep it up to date
These are responsibilities for all sysops. This won't make you into a operating system vendor but it will keep you in control.
It is less likely that relying on your army of resellers, support engineers, and product development personnel will replace a competant in-house sysop assuming your target clients are medium to high end server users.
Pretty specious stuff overall. But hey - Darl isn't really pulling the wool over anybody's eyes. Just check their last years' sales.
I have always liked Bradbury's work. As a child I read the Illustrated Man and was blown away by how imaginative it was.
Bradbury is a wonderful author but he is no cosmologist or even an astral philosopher. He's just a person like you or me.
But why did he write that the USA was
"a nation... that would become the center of civilization, the center of a new thing called democracy, and change the history of world, and become the most powerful power of the world"
Please! What a pile of manure. Such conceit and arrogance is what we've come to expect from politicians or other self-serving individuals attempting to play the lowest common denominator card.
Yet another self-appointed expert who we should take notice of? Not this unit. Actually I hope she is right as far as her Linux predictions but really she doesn't sound like she knows what she's talking about. This is the sort of story you'd expect to read in mainstream press. Sorry karma police but less of this sort of stuff please.
The calculations that show in dollar terms the costs of spam remind me of The Mythical Man-Month. Is it really possible of quantify the cost of spam? is it worth doing? What is clear is that it is pretty much universally despised. Do we need economic arguments before we do something about it?
This appears to be a global trend - look at the outsourcing from Europe to India as a good example. It is just a metaphor for the whole free-trade movement. Unfettered movement of capital and goods, restricted movement of workers. Ergo, in the case of software development, capital will seek out cheaper and more 'efficient' pathways. Its hard not to view this cynically - in my mind at least - it always looks like capital ruthlessly hunts out cheaper and more compliant labour.
If we continue to want cheaper goods and don't really care about their 'real' cost, then we must also accept that those goods which we assume we will produce in exchange can also be produced by our trading partners. In the case of the developing world, there appears to be an unlimited supply of workers. Software is a commodity too.
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Pretty obvious plagiarism from wikipedia here. C'mon Adam you can do better than this.
I have worked on a number of big projects in a number of organisations and 'coding standards' are one of those issues that are always contentious and divisive. Even in my current job I have been pestered by individuals who insist that K&R style indenting is 'our policy'. These same individuals seem to spend more time on these relatively trivial matters than actually co-operating effectively and maturely in our collaborative efforts.
I think team communication and an environment that nurtures and repects all members' opinions and contributions is the most fundamental aspect of successful software development. Of course decisions need to be made and here is where you will need some benevolent despot or despots to act. But these decisions should be made after consulting with the group.
I would forget about coding standards for now and concentrate on your development process, namely how do we decide, communicate, feedback etc in order to get the job done. When all members of the team feel they can contribute effectively to this process you'll be amazed at how productive they will be and how easily they will accommodate slight differences in coding standards.
Having said all that, you could of course all agree that code will be commented and use certain methodolgies, components, etc. But these will be easy to do if the group comunicates well.
Now if you want do some ogling of the fascinating moguling
Who give the irritating adverts from the britches of the fatcats
Who put the software on the desktops on the punters
From the boonies of the harem of the court of King Ridiculous,
You're too late!
Because they've just... passed... out!
No no no no no - lets get this right - rootkits only permit you to root a *nix system. On Windoze systems, the System Administrator is already rooted.
I tried to login as root on my windoze box but it wouldn't let me. Does that mean I have already been infected (or should that read rooted)?
I've been noticing a lot of this in recent months. As you read through the article notice what look like hyperlink references to words in the article body. Actually they are so called sponsored links. Well they're very cheeky links to their sponsors advertisements. I suppose they'll trick you at least once ;)
blu-ray osd: Attention you have caused your blu-ray player to execute an illegal instruction and you will be permanently shutdown. If you have not caused this please ignore our illegal instructions. Have a nice day.
Anybody who receives a lot of SPAM (you know who you are!) would need to spend countless hours every day choosing to opt out of future SPAM. The process is consequently fundamentally flawed and clearly favours SPAMmers. Imagine the same system with cold callers at your front door. You would have to open the door, hear what they have to say before deciding that you didn't in fact want strangers knocking on your door whenever they wanted.
It is surprising to hear MS objecting to opt in systems though. It does suggest some conflicts of interests. On the one hand they claim that SPAM is annoying, wasteful and destructive and yet here we hear that they support the 'right' of companies to legitimately market to 'customers' in an unsolicited manner.
Another rather sinister aspect of a lot of SPAM today is that many includedembedded URLs which when activated (either by clicking or just opening the email) attempt to open the source web page, thereby quietly confirming that you are in fact a real person. So in these cases, opt out is too late.
But where does the electricity come from? If it is solar powered or perhaps nuclear (with its attendant risks) then maybe there could be a reduction in greenhouse gas emission. If the power is coal/oil generated then the source of the emission is just somewhere else. It just becomes a zero sum game but the politicians can sell it as a environmentally friendly solution.
If you are going to install and maintain an OS Darl, chances are you'll need to...
install it
configure it
make it secure
keep it up to date
These are responsibilities for all sysops. This won't make you into a operating system vendor but it will keep you in control. It is less likely that relying on your army of resellers, support engineers, and product development personnel will replace a competant in-house sysop assuming your target clients are medium to high end server users. Pretty specious stuff overall. But hey - Darl isn't really pulling the wool over anybody's eyes. Just check their last years' sales.
I have always liked Bradbury's work. As a child I read the Illustrated Man and was blown away by how imaginative it was.
... that would become the center of civilization, the center of a new thing called democracy, and change the history of world, and become the most powerful power of the world"
Bradbury is a wonderful author but he is no cosmologist or even an astral philosopher. He's just a person like you or me.
But why did he write that the USA was
"a nation
Please! What a pile of manure. Such conceit and arrogance is what we've come to expect from politicians or other self-serving individuals attempting to play the lowest common denominator card.
ferretous
Yet another self-appointed expert who we should take notice of? Not this unit. Actually I hope she is right as far as her Linux predictions but really she doesn't sound like she knows what she's talking about. This is the sort of story you'd expect to read in mainstream press. Sorry karma police but less of this sort of stuff please.
The calculations that show in dollar terms the costs of spam remind me of The Mythical Man-Month. Is it really possible of quantify the cost of spam? is it worth doing? What is clear is that it is pretty much universally despised. Do we need economic arguments before we do something about it?
ferretous
This appears to be a global trend - look at the outsourcing from Europe to India as a good example. It is just a metaphor for the whole free-trade movement. Unfettered movement of capital and goods, restricted movement of workers. Ergo, in the case of software development, capital will seek out cheaper and more 'efficient' pathways. Its hard not to view this cynically - in my mind at least - it always looks like capital ruthlessly hunts out cheaper and more compliant labour.
If we continue to want cheaper goods and don't really care about their 'real' cost, then we must also accept that those goods which we assume we will produce in exchange can also be produced by our trading partners. In the case of the developing world, there appears to be an unlimited supply of workers. Software is a commodity too.
ferretous
Amazing what you can do with them thar macros
Shameless self-promotion laced with idiotiotic brainless attempts at humour. Please find some other place to annoy people (tried your kids?)