I whole heartedly believe in code re-use but I have been burned a bit by white box re-use. Be cautious of code you have to do open heart surgery on before it's usable! It's likely you'll be in there again and again.....
E3 hype, gamer buzz, swag hording and hot booth chicks was the most exciting part. We gotta get gamer hands on controllers and they need to be blogging there asses off. Of course company PR reps are going to make there games sound like the shiz, this is what they are paid for.
"However, protocol buffers are not always a better solution than XML â" for instance, protocol buffers would not be a good way to model a text-based document with markup (e.g. HTML), since you cannot easily interleave structure with text. In addition, XML is human-readable and human-editable; protocol buffers, at least in their native format, are not. XML is also â" to some extent â" self-describing. A protocol buffer is only meaningful if you have the message definition (the.proto file)."
As for IDL, they came up with an solution that would work for there specific needs. Given the circumstances most dev teams would do the same.
Everyone (who wants to) knows the SGML XML historical association by now. Mark-up has its place. My post was about the irrelevance of speed comparision not any specific love or hate for a mark-up technology.
Binary encoding, none hierarchy based string list,
and simple file serialization are all faster than XML.
XML was created flexibility, commonality and human readability not speed. XSL, XQuery, and XPATH along with the DOM or SAX supply out of the box query, transformation, and manipulation capability.
Any language, library/framework, IDE selections should be driven by an understanding of the solution/problem domain not management. You should have an architect who has the experience to prescribe a suitable development environment without bias based on the type of problem being solved. This should happen fairly early in the initial design phase and should be solidified before CUT starts.
This process may drive your organization towards different dev environments on different types of projects but you will be more likely to use the correct set of technologies for the problem instead of forcing every solution prescribed into the same set of tech.
Considering we are just now getting to the point where gesture/Multi touch UIs are becoming usable, I am a bit skeptical of the whole Jean grey UI thing.
I worked quite happily as a process engineer for a while before doing any classic coding (c,c++). There are also plenty of CSs doing systems engineering and scientific work, algorithm analysis etc......
Anyway CS does not = programming! As a BSCS you should know this already.
I am far more fearful of an open fragmented Java than I was of closed Java.
The fact that Java had a "Sugar Daddy" to regulate it and support it with strong standard libraries made it very appealing to Corp and Gov users. I don't mind an experimental open source implementation but there has to be a stable, commercially viable alternative around that companies can depend on (read hold liable) or the whole platform slowly losses its appeal.
The "Java never mattered" thing is flamebait . We all know that it is part of the backbone of many commercial web solutions. There are also many projects that just couldn't have existed with it. The argument of validity is pretty much over.
I primarily use C/C++ professionally but I have used Java in the past as well as C# and a few Scripting languages (Perl,Python). I can say that for certain software solutions there is no better alternative to Java. I can say the same for C++,C# and Perl.
There is always, introduced with much fanfare, a new interview with Stroustrup where he says the same thing he said in the previous 15 interviews. As a professional developer I enjoy reading these types of things but I get frustrated at the same questions being asked over and over again. The was a very good read but fell into the normal Stroustrup interview cadence.
This is definitely a good thing and it all is happening the right way. We must understand that the choices of the user/consumer should drive file formats, software quality, etc... Commercial software can only be as closed as the consumer allows, and only as crappy as the consumer will allow.
Early in words life-cycle it was for the most the only game in town therefor the consumer would bear with and work within M$ set of rules. A$ controls the music we listen to by way of being the only real place to get the music we want to listen to in town. Whats best now will probably not be best in 10 years. These bubbles form and pop.
Now that tech hardware is more decentralized "the market" is pushing the entire industry towards open formats and data sharing across system types and OS's. We want our applications to just work , we want them to work together, and to work on the platforms we chose to use. This is happening in multiple industries.
It is time,driven by consumer demand, for the Word bubble to pop or deflate. Whose to say that they wont be the premiere ODF document generation tool on the market. They just wont enjoy the monopolistic control they have had over the industry anymore.
My point is that these large companies will and should fight tooth and nail to maintain their supremacy. This insures that the successor is worthy. The choice must be made by the consumer.
In this case we have chosen ODF.
I only skimmed the article but at least we are getting some good scientific use out of all the social networking gobbledegook we have floating around out here.
From the Article, "OpenJDK is based on Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE) 6".
I am wondering whether the Java SE line and the OpenJDK will be updated and serviced by Sun concurrently, new versions, etc? Is the OpenJDK completely detached from SE developing and growing on its own accord without Sun influences, or does it replace SE completely?
As I read some of the post here "N#$%^ are stupid" etc.... I can't help but to think that the real reason is that the development industry in general is skeptical of a person of color's capability to design and develop software. I currently work as a senior software engineer on a few key development project in the telecom industry and to tell you the truth it has been a battle to get where I am. No matter what I want to believe about merit and talent, there is an underlying "how did you get in, here?!" sentiment floating around the development industry when it comes to blacks doing design and engineering work. It is a real shame that we as an industry can't just be above all of this a hire people based on there capability. Sad world......
This is no different than Nintendo/Sony limiting devkit distribution and not allowing some gaming subject matter or play mechanics to get through to the public. Whether its right or wrong isn't the question. The question is whether you as an individual will buy into there model and abide by there rules. Of course they are going to limit certain features, this is a cell phone. Anyway, they are a company generating revenue and have share holders to contend with.
Also, i really don't think the lack of java support is that big of a deal. The cocoa/objective-c/xcode trifecta is more than adequate for development here and fits better into A$ way of doing things. If you have learned java and its libraries then learning objective-c (weird looking but cool) and cocoa (a really complete library) should pose no problem at all.
The technology in and of itself isn't the problem, people are the problem. Vehicular homicide is wrong but we are smart enough to blame the irate driver and not the car. Why do we have to put a morality on everything. Google is just creating and innovating so as to stay on top.
Drug dealers often give drugs away for free initially to get the dependency going. I spent a small portion of my freshman year under the misunderstanding that MS VS was the only usable compiler out for school projects and bought student versions of all of there software. I have worked at many companies were MS is the only game in town not because the were the best for the job but more because of market dominance.
The technological base that video/computer games are built on has just recently come to a point where the emphasis can be on actual game design and what makes a fun game and not software development, architecture, how to make a game/graphics engine etc... There are free and commercial engines available now that are relatively easy to use and allow a game designer to focus on game design just as the recent shift to digital video and digital cameras has reduced the complexity of entry of up and coming filmmakers into the indie film industry. This almost has to happen for any industrial medium to transition to an artistic medium.
Visuals arts, architecture, live music and dance have relatively easy to come by mediums. With Film and audio anyone can get there stuff seen and or heard through some social network or youtube and the tools of the trades are easy to come by. For the game industry to survive and complete the transition to art the mediums of its expression must become commodity. The independent game designers must have some way of creating and presenting there work without being too in-cumbered by technicalities.
On a side note, I think the lack of weighty material has more to do with a fear of not selling enough units than anything else. The game industry mimics the music and film industries when it comes to taking chances. Small players innovate and the big players only take chances on things when the idea has been a proven money maker.
On another side note, the comic book industry faded mainly because other mediums of expression started attracting the interest of creators/artist that may have otherwise been working in comics. The people who have real love for comics are the people who still support that art form and create in that medium.... There is nothing wrong with that.
I agree. The general population has finally caught on this social networking thing so the "coolness" of it should be wearing off at least from a 1337 point of view. These sites are correctly putting there development dollars into extending there networks to the smart/cell phone markets. The real killer app is going to be the site that finally gets the computer/cell phone social networking thing "right", if there is such a thing. Kind of like
World of Warcraft
taking the MMO industry to the next level. Not really a revolution but evolutionary advance to better usability.
Some friends and I have been wagering,free Starbucks for a week, on when this was going to happen. I've been holding off buying another laptop or an IPhone in the hopes that it was soon. New Xcode, objective-c, core animation, and now this. Things are looking up.........
It's taught, just not how it used to be. My 15 year old nephew is taking classes in web development/design, spreadsheets and email but has not had to take any discrete mathematics, computer architecture, intro to programming languages etc... The focus has moved away from those types of classes in general education. The goal there is to:
A. Prepare the student for life in the "tech savvy" world.
B. Give options that lead down a path to Computer Science, Industrial design, Business etc.... based on the students strengths and passions
I am a Computer Scientist by education and a Software Engineer by trade, but I don't expect the general 2007 human being to be anymore interested in the things I do than the average 1950s human being was interested in chemistry or electrical engineering.
How much time does the average person spend thinking about how power steering or XM satellite radio works (AM/FM radio for that matter). Scientist, Engineers, and Designers care about and work through the details offering a suitably usable interface to the technology they create for everyone to use. It is not required that the general person know anything but how to use those interfaces.
Why do we continue to try to compare these 2 operating systems. They both do some of the same things well and a few specific thing better or worse than each other. Thank God there is still competition in this (the OS) arena.
I own and develop for Windows and OSX. I like both. Right now I love my Mac Book Pro with XCode because it has all of the cool camera/light sensing stuff and it is interesting to play with prgrammatically. I still like my Windows XP with visual studio cause it allows me to develop stuff quickly and is more compatable with all of my buddies sutff so we can exchange projects and executables easily.
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I whole heartedly believe in code re-use but I have been burned a bit by white box re-use. Be cautious of code you have to do open heart surgery on before it's usable! It's likely you'll be in there again and again.....
Embrace, extend and extinguish if possible.... If not mimic, befriend and strangle until you can extinguish.
M$ is kinda like kudzu or pigweed in that respect.
Exactly.....
E3 hype, gamer buzz, swag hording and hot booth chicks was the most exciting part. We gotta get gamer hands on controllers and they need to be blogging there asses off. Of course company PR reps are going to make there games sound like the shiz, this is what they are paid for.
We need real gamers floating around.
Checks and Balances
"However, protocol buffers are not always a better solution than XML â" for instance, protocol buffers would not be a good way to model a text-based document with markup (e.g. HTML), since you cannot easily interleave structure with text. In addition, XML is human-readable and human-editable; protocol buffers, at least in their native format, are not. XML is also â" to some extent â" self-describing. A protocol buffer is only meaningful if you have the message definition (the .proto file)."
As for IDL, they came up with an solution that would work for there specific needs. Given the circumstances most dev teams would do the same.
Everyone (who wants to) knows the SGML XML historical association by now. Mark-up has its place. My post was about the irrelevance of speed comparision not any specific love or hate for a mark-up technology.
Binary encoding, none hierarchy based string list, and simple file serialization are all faster than XML. XML was created flexibility, commonality and human readability not speed. XSL, XQuery, and XPATH along with the DOM or SAX supply out of the box query, transformation, and manipulation capability.
A very good answer.
Any language, library/framework, IDE selections should be driven by an understanding of the solution/problem domain not management. You should have an architect who has the experience to prescribe a suitable development environment without bias based on the type of problem being solved. This should happen fairly early in the initial design phase and should be solidified before CUT starts.
This process may drive your organization towards different dev environments on different types of projects but you will be more likely to use the correct set of technologies for the problem instead of forcing every solution prescribed into the same set of tech.
Why is this modded troll? The AC is giving his opinion on the topic just like everyone else. Did I miss some other more sinister context to this post?
Considering we are just now getting to the point where gesture/Multi touch UIs are becoming usable, I am a bit skeptical of the whole Jean grey UI thing.
I worked quite happily as a process engineer for a while before doing any classic coding (c,c++). There are also plenty of CSs doing systems engineering and scientific work, algorithm analysis etc......
Anyway CS does not = programming! As a BSCS you should know this already.
I am far more fearful of an open fragmented Java than I was of closed Java.
The fact that Java had a "Sugar Daddy" to regulate it and support it with strong standard libraries made it very appealing to Corp and Gov users. I don't mind an experimental open source implementation but there has to be a stable, commercially viable alternative around that companies can depend on (read hold liable) or the whole platform slowly losses its appeal.
The "Java never mattered" thing is flamebait . We all know that it is part of the backbone of many commercial web solutions. There are also many projects that just couldn't have existed with it. The argument of validity is pretty much over.
I primarily use C/C++ professionally but I have used Java in the past as well as C# and a few Scripting languages (Perl,Python). I can say that for certain software solutions there is no better alternative to Java. I can say the same for C++,C# and Perl.
There is always, introduced with much fanfare, a new interview with Stroustrup where he says the same thing he said in the previous 15 interviews. As a professional developer I enjoy reading these types of things but I get frustrated at the same questions being asked over and over again. The was a very good read but fell into the normal Stroustrup interview cadence.
I did like the "sugar daddy" comment!!!This is definitely a good thing and it all is happening the right way. We must understand that the choices of the user/consumer should drive file formats, software quality, etc... Commercial software can only be as closed as the consumer allows, and only as crappy as the consumer will allow.
Early in words life-cycle it was for the most the only game in town therefor the consumer would bear with and work within M$ set of rules. A$ controls the music we listen to by way of being the only real place to get the music we want to listen to in town. Whats best now will probably not be best in 10 years. These bubbles form and pop.
Now that tech hardware is more decentralized "the market" is pushing the entire industry towards open formats and data sharing across system types and OS's. We want our applications to just work , we want them to work together, and to work on the platforms we chose to use. This is happening in multiple industries.
It is time,driven by consumer demand, for the Word bubble to pop or deflate. Whose to say that they wont be the premiere ODF document generation tool on the market. They just wont enjoy the monopolistic control they have had over the industry anymore.
My point is that these large companies will and should fight tooth and nail to maintain their supremacy. This insures that the successor is worthy. The choice must be made by the consumer. In this case we have chosen ODF.
I only skimmed the article but at least we are getting some good scientific use out of all the social networking gobbledegook we have floating around out here.
From the Article, "OpenJDK is based on Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE) 6".
I am wondering whether the Java SE line and the OpenJDK will be updated and serviced by Sun concurrently, new versions, etc? Is the OpenJDK completely detached from SE developing and growing on its own accord without Sun influences, or does it replace SE completely?
As I read some of the post here "N#$%^ are stupid" etc.... I can't help but to think that the real reason is that the development industry in general is skeptical of a person of color's capability to design and develop software. I currently work as a senior software engineer on a few key development project in the telecom industry and to tell you the truth it has been a battle to get where I am. No matter what I want to believe about merit and talent, there is an underlying "how did you get in, here?!" sentiment floating around the development industry when it comes to blacks doing design and engineering work. It is a real shame that we as an industry can't just be above all of this a hire people based on there capability. Sad world......
This is no different than Nintendo/Sony limiting devkit distribution and not allowing some gaming subject matter or play mechanics to get through to the public. Whether its right or wrong isn't the question. The question is whether you as an individual will buy into there model and abide by there rules. Of course they are going to limit certain features, this is a cell phone. Anyway, they are a company generating revenue and have share holders to contend with. Also, i really don't think the lack of java support is that big of a deal. The cocoa/objective-c/xcode trifecta is more than adequate for development here and fits better into A$ way of doing things. If you have learned java and its libraries then learning objective-c (weird looking but cool) and cocoa (a really complete library) should pose no problem at all.
The technology in and of itself isn't the problem, people are the problem. Vehicular homicide is wrong but we are smart enough to blame the irate driver and not the car. Why do we have to put a morality on everything. Google is just creating and innovating so as to stay on top.
Drug dealers often give drugs away for free initially to get the dependency going. I spent a small portion of my freshman year under the misunderstanding that MS VS was the only usable compiler out for school projects and bought student versions of all of there software. I have worked at many companies were MS is the only game in town not because the were the best for the job but more because of market dominance.
The technological base that video/computer games are built on has just recently come to a point where the emphasis can be on actual game design and what makes a fun game and not software development, architecture, how to make a game/graphics engine etc... There are free and commercial engines available now that are relatively easy to use and allow a game designer to focus on game design just as the recent shift to digital video and digital cameras has reduced the complexity of entry of up and coming filmmakers into the indie film industry. This almost has to happen for any industrial medium to transition to an artistic medium.
Visuals arts, architecture, live music and dance have relatively easy to come by mediums. With Film and audio anyone can get there stuff seen and or heard through some social network or youtube and the tools of the trades are easy to come by. For the game industry to survive and complete the transition to art the mediums of its expression must become commodity. The independent game designers must have some way of creating and presenting there work without being too in-cumbered by technicalities.
On a side note, I think the lack of weighty material has more to do with a fear of not selling enough units than anything else. The game industry mimics the music and film industries when it comes to taking chances. Small players innovate and the big players only take chances on things when the idea has been a proven money maker.
On another side note, the comic book industry faded mainly because other mediums of expression started attracting the interest of creators/artist that may have otherwise been working in comics. The people who have real love for comics are the people who still support that art form and create in that medium.... There is nothing wrong with that.
I wonder if this means the LAMP web app stack is gonna somehow have to change?
- World of Warcraft
taking the MMO industry to the next level. Not really a revolution but evolutionary advance to better usability.Some friends and I have been wagering ,free Starbucks for a week, on when this was going to happen. I've been holding off buying another laptop or an IPhone in the hopes that it was soon. New Xcode, objective-c, core animation, and now this. Things are looking up.........
It's taught, just not how it used to be. My 15 year old nephew is taking classes in web development/design, spreadsheets and email but has not had to take any discrete mathematics, computer architecture, intro to programming languages etc... The focus has moved away from those types of classes in general education. The goal there is to: A. Prepare the student for life in the "tech savvy" world. B. Give options that lead down a path to Computer Science, Industrial design, Business etc.... based on the students strengths and passions I am a Computer Scientist by education and a Software Engineer by trade, but I don't expect the general 2007 human being to be anymore interested in the things I do than the average 1950s human being was interested in chemistry or electrical engineering. How much time does the average person spend thinking about how power steering or XM satellite radio works (AM/FM radio for that matter). Scientist, Engineers, and Designers care about and work through the details offering a suitably usable interface to the technology they create for everyone to use. It is not required that the general person know anything but how to use those interfaces.
Why do we continue to try to compare these 2 operating systems. They both do some of the same things well and a few specific thing better or worse than each other. Thank God there is still competition in this (the OS) arena. I own and develop for Windows and OSX. I like both. Right now I love my Mac Book Pro with XCode because it has all of the cool camera/light sensing stuff and it is interesting to play with prgrammatically. I still like my Windows XP with visual studio cause it allows me to develop stuff quickly and is more compatable with all of my buddies sutff so we can exchange projects and executables easily.