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I doubt it supports my formatting.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Few would dispute that we always need to improve the way we build software as suggested in the Manifesto. However, I must admit that when I first read the first four beliefs that these great individuals wrote down, I had my doubts. Time for Agile's Bar Mitzvah. Mazeltov! (I'll get it a pen set)
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Duktape is an embeddable Javascript engine, with a focus on portability and compact footprint. Go on: bolt a JavaScript engine to your C++ app. What's the worst that could happen?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Go on: bolt a JavaScript engine to your C++ app. What's the worst that could happen?
I dunno, people may actually use it.
It's bad enough that JS is the standard in the browser!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Go on: bolt a JavaScript engine to your C++ app. What's the worst that could happen?
QML?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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QML ain't that bad, as long as you keep any business logic away from it. QML is GUI development, and it shall stick with the GUI.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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Hoping to give database managers and developers more flexibility in handling vast amounts of data, SkySQL is releasing versions of its MariaDB-based Enterprise and Enterprise Cluster products that offer integration with NoSQL databases. "All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word"
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See on Channel9.
Again, desktop developers aren't too welcome anymore...
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C'mon it's not that they are not welcome. It's that there is limited time and there is so much to showcase regarding mobile and the cloud.
And the sign out front that says, "Desktop developers not welcome," well, just ignore that.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I know, it was meant more like an ironical annotation. The time is limited, of course, but the lack of sessions about desktop development is just too obvious. At least there is a panel discussion on the agenda (session 2-563) and I hope there'll be some folks asking the right questions and Microsoft finally starts plain talking how the desktop fits in their future plans, especially when it comes to Win32 an WPF which are kind of dead in the water for two years. It's well about time.
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Microsoft has posted up the sessions for its BUILD conference that kicks-off this week and you can find a few tidbits of information by looking at the details of the deep dive classes. "One Windows" to yadda, yadda (you know)
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To Winfinity(tm) and beyond!
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One Windows, to not be used by anyone until they figure out what the hell they're actually doing with it.
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I note, with grave concern, the passage: "According to previous tips, this "modern" SKU might not include a Desktop for running legacy Win32 apps."
If they do that, I think I'll need to jump ship to Linux development.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: If they do that, I think I'll need to jump ship to Linux development.
Why? They aren't talking about dropping desktop altogether, just about keeping the desktop off devices that have never run it; i.e. phones and ARM devices. The idea that has been mooted about is having potentially three core SKUs; one for "modern" devices, one for desktops and one for servers. The modern device is the one they are talking about keeping the desktop off.
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Well, it won't be so bad if they were at least consistent and remove the immersive shell from the professional/enterprise SKU in the course. I think they have to re-think the desktop as well instead of just ditching it and focusing on mobile and cloud. The app model of the Windows Store is just too restricted for advanced applications (deployment only via the Store, no extensibility, etc.), and while it makes a lot of sense to unify the Windows Store app model with the app model of Windows Phone, I think there should still be a separate one for desktop apps that allows for non-Store deployment and extensibility. Kind of like WinRT+ for the desktop. Could be used for mobile app development as well via emulation (just like for Windows Phone).
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Ken Schwaber recounts the invention of scrum and compares it to reading a book about chess. "I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it."
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Microsoft on Monday named Scott Guthrie as the permanent head for Microsoft’s enterprise group, a position he has held in an acting capacity. Way to Gu!
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Nadella also officially announced the return of Stephen Elop in a "senior leadership position," which to me translates as "the guy who's going to do all the dirty work."
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Cookies as a user tracking mechanism have come under fire recently — partly due to privacy concerns and partly because they simply aren’t very useful in a mobile world. Here are some alternatives. My money is on something worse (for us)
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Informed consumers purchasing products based on merit and cost and once again being able to use pavements to walk on, in a world where all humans have at least some value.
(oh wait - or did you mean what is the alternative to cookies?)
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Brownies and muffins
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Android has been declared as the most stable mobile operating system in a new report from Crittercism, a company specialising in app analysis and management. The firm looked at statistics generated by more than a billion iOS and Android applications, finding that Android KitKat’s 0.7 percent crash rate was some way below the 1.6 percent crash rate detected on iOS 7.1. Best of a bad lot?
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