6. Big Fonts I site the article as an example supporting the use of big fonts. For further reference visit any "Web 2.0" site:)
3. 3D UI Though it may be tiring to use your whole arms - gesturing - to use a computer, it sure beats the hell out of the amount of exercise you are getting right now sitting at your keyboard. Give it a couple weeks - you'll be be stronger for it... and you'll look like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish;)
If you can stand to build on the MS platform, classic ASP pages can be tooled to use server-side JScript instead of vbscript. The difference between these two scripting languages is vast - Javascript is soooo much more capable.
In the past, to reduce the number of languages team members had to learn, we chose to roll with server-side Javascript ASP pages. It improved ramp up time and gave a ton more power and flexibility to the server-side code.
As the developer of freely available software, I find the prospect of people using my code a mixed bag. Partially, I feel an ownership of the code I write and am somewhat offended by the idea of people using it . However, as a paid engineer, I go through this at regular intervals; older projects get handed to others for support, as I work on new components.
On the other hand, I welcome the idea that my free code would be used by others - it is a flattering prospect, I suppose.
Others profit from this sort of re-use: COM, CORBA, Jars, etc...
In all my travels as an adult, I have never been to a place more laden with racial slurs than in online gaming. We all wear different skins and are anonymous, but such anonymity causes some people to feel they can spit out whatever racial bullshit they feel like saying.
It is really sad and reduces the quality of gaming.
There are thousands of them. Find one that uses the APIs/Languages/etc. that you are interested in and then get it source code. Spend time perusing that for a while. Next, look at the open bug list for the project and see if you can delve in an sumbit a patch.
You will increase your skills and you will be contributing to a project that other will benefit from. Every one wins.
I was fortunate to attend a two day seminar on this methodology. Overall, I found it very interesting and it demonstrated an alternative to the traditional waterfall approach. We've managed to use concepts from this methodology on the team, but it is very hard to follow all the principals when there isn't complete buy in from everyone. The best parts I am able to take into the real world with me are:
Daily stand up meetings. These are usually no longer than 15 minutes and very rapidly give a view of the current project status.
A living backlog. The backlog of tasks with estimates to complete each task is updated every day and is a fantastic tool to allow the developers to select what they will work on next rather than relying on someone else to plot out what a developer will be doing in several months.
Burndown chart. The burndown is derrived straight from the backlog and shows very clearly how closely on track the project is within a given sprint.
That all being said - the one thing was not able to figure out is how to judge how clost the entire project is to being on track with its deadlines. As far as I can tell, the project is only planned as far ahead as a given sprint (roughly a month).
Slashdot Mirror
"Climate Monitoring Station Proposed on the Moon"
Bob: "How's the climate looking today?"
Fred: "Yup... still a vacuum."
"Most programmers who know C also know at least one other language."
;)
Yes - I know C and english
It's all relative ;)
"A lot of people, especially younger ones, weren't aware that Ford was the only US president who was never elected to office"
You must be forgetting the current President.
6. Big Fonts :)
;)
I site the article as an example supporting the use of big fonts. For further reference visit any "Web 2.0" site
3. 3D UI
Though it may be tiring to use your whole arms - gesturing - to use a computer, it sure beats the hell out of the amount of exercise you are getting right now sitting at your keyboard. Give it a couple weeks - you'll be be stronger for it... and you'll look like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish
Yes - The company that originally created Blogger was Pyra Labs. Google acquired Pyra in 2003.
If you can stand to build on the MS platform, classic ASP pages can be tooled to use server-side JScript instead of vbscript. The difference between these two scripting languages is vast - Javascript is soooo much more capable.
In the past, to reduce the number of languages team members had to learn, we chose to roll with server-side Javascript ASP pages. It improved ramp up time and gave a ton more power and flexibility to the server-side code.
You do know what web site you are posting to, right? :)
Part 5 in this series is available now:
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/D1C45F9C-C
And you can enjoy parts 1-3 also:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/18839BF9-5
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/859889E4-D
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/17E71735-2
As the developer of freely available software, I find the prospect of people using my code a mixed bag. Partially, I feel an ownership of the code I write and am somewhat offended by the idea of people using it . However, as a paid engineer, I go through this at regular intervals; older projects get handed to others for support, as I work on new components.
On the other hand, I welcome the idea that my free code would be used by others - it is a flattering prospect, I suppose.
Others profit from this sort of re-use: COM, CORBA, Jars, etc...
In all my travels as an adult, I have never been to a place more laden with racial slurs than in online gaming. We all wear different skins and are anonymous, but such anonymity causes some people to feel they can spit out whatever racial bullshit they feel like saying.
It is really sad and reduces the quality of gaming.
Just to nit pick.
"So, if the person has been immunized using the vaccine..."
Vaccine's do not provide full immunity. Only viral exposure can provide full immunity.
Vaccination != Immunity
"If 'Leopard' is really what it claims to be, i.e. fast and efficient, in sharp contrast to slow and resource hungry Windows Vista"
I'm likely to be modded down for this, but I do enjoy consistently finding biased posts here at Slashdot.
Unreported were 5 red-shirt clad improv artists at the same event. Unfortunately they all were all killed by a freak car accident in the parking lot ;)
Oh good, a digg style headline on Slashdot.
And now I just read the last few sentenses of your post - oops :)
Still, I stand by the open source approach. There are many projects out there of smaller size that may be less intimidating.
There are thousands of them. Find one that uses the APIs/Languages/etc. that you are interested in and then get it source code. Spend time perusing that for a while. Next, look at the open bug list for the project and see if you can delve in an sumbit a patch.
You will increase your skills and you will be contributing to a project that other will benefit from. Every one wins.
"I like Ubuntu a lot, but it took me about 2 hours the first night to be able to play and rip MP3 files."
Have you looked at Easy Ubuntu?
http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/
Really? I thought most of us were smarter than him already...
I was fortunate to attend a two day seminar on this methodology. Overall, I found it very interesting and it demonstrated an alternative to the traditional waterfall approach. We've managed to use concepts from this methodology on the team, but it is very hard to follow all the principals when there isn't complete buy in from everyone. The best parts I am able to take into the real world with me are:
Daily stand up meetings. These are usually no longer than 15 minutes and very rapidly give a view of the current project status.
A living backlog. The backlog of tasks with estimates to complete each task is updated every day and is a fantastic tool to allow the developers to select what they will work on next rather than relying on someone else to plot out what a developer will be doing in several months.
Burndown chart. The burndown is derrived straight from the backlog and shows very clearly how closely on track the project is within a given sprint.
That all being said - the one thing was not able to figure out is how to judge how clost the entire project is to being on track with its deadlines. As far as I can tell, the project is only planned as far ahead as a given sprint (roughly a month).
Recap:
- ultra-secure password
- PC password
- internet password
- crap password
I don't think pyramid means what you think it means.
No there is not. If you drop your monthly payments your DVR turns into a brick.
So where's that PGP/GPG plugin for gmail? :)
"Soylent Green is people!"
:P
Oh thanks so much,now I guess I can skip that movie. Next you're going to tell me that Vader is Luke's father. Hahaha, that would be a good one
(ducks)
That was you????!!!!
;)
Good god man - that's why I ended up with an Atari 800. Shit.