Last year, I exposed some of the initial lessons learned during the initial operation of two agile projects based on a mixed onshore-offshore model. One year after, the projects are concluded overall successfully, and some major additional lessons are learned: personalities and culture matter, hands-on management is as important as …
I plan to talk about HTML, CSS, and the DOM in Mozilla, from the DOM tree and CSS style sheets through to displaying pixels on the screen. In particular, what do Mozilla-based browsers spend the time doing when they’re displaying a Web page? Which parts of this work are redone …
The ultimate goals of any software-testing effort is to make the software more robust and reliable, thereby reducing support costs and increasing customer satisfaction. Recent trends to use unit testing and other techniques in the software build process help reach those goals. However with the move towards systems of interacting …
Lecture by Professor Mehran Sahami for the Stanford Computer Science Department (CS106A). Professor Sahami lectures on GObjects, GImage, Gcompound, and Gpolygons. He then shows how to incorporate the mouse and keyboard into the graphics.
Alex Plant interviews Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer and Director of Open Technologies Practice at Sun Microsystems, in the studio at JavaOne 200.
A few years ago Digg released a very cool little visualisation tool they dubbed the Digg Spy (it’s since been upgraded to the Big Spy). Recently Realmac Software released the site QuickSnapper to accompany LittleSnapper. It’s the QuickSnapper site (the left hand side) that makes use of the similar spy …