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But, what kind of hospital is there when we're sick of Microsoft ?
(other than the insanity ward, I s'pose...)
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Someone at Microsoft must be crying after that one (and the earlier one about the NFL commentators). So much for visible promotions. Time to go back to crazy dancing commercials[^].
TTFN - Kent
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Awesome things happen, sooner or later. This time, sooner. A month earlier than last year, we’re excited to announce IntelliJ IDEA 14, the major new release of your favorite Java IDE. Now with a bunch of new features of interest to Java developers (so I'm moving on quickly)
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Cisco predicts by 2018, a quarter of the world's population will use personal cloud storage. The other quarter will be to sites reporting on "Is my Cloud down?"
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Hey you get off of my cloud...
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Though tough to define, functional programming can bring real productivity boosts if you can navigate the learning curve. Caution: may cause recreation of scenes from Scanners
Once you're past that though, sailing's fine.
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Sometimes, paradoxically, more restrictive environments can lead to greater productivity and it is my experience that immutability just makes all the difference if you are doing anything multi-threaded.
That said, modelling business processes (and things like DDD) are better done in an object oriented language.
This is why an environment/ecosystem that supports both is so important?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Though tough to define
Actually, functional programming is extremely easy to define. McCarthy's original LISP implementation is a thing of tiny beauty. Church's lambda calculus, which provides the logical framework for it all is a much more elegant (and usable) expression of computability than Turing machines, and most functional languages are fairly small compared to imperative language.
The problem is that while switching from C to C# to C++ to Java to Ruby etc. involves small changes in approach, functional programming is a whole different way of working.
As for his discussion of C# and Java as "functional" languages because they enable passing functions - no, that just makes them hybrid languages. Smalltalk had blocks (closures) back in 1980, and they didn't make that a functional language. Indeed, they're pretty essential to make OO work properly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Proxygen lets Facebook take advantage of new software performance enhancers like the Google-developed SPDY protocol and has apparently cut down on the amount of time it takes Facebook to make new products. Not sure how it's going to speed development, but if you need an HTTP stack, it might help.
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New research demonstrates that, unlike native apps, those written in HTML5 are susceptible to code injection attacks. No reason. HTML has a perfect security record.
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The Internet giant's latest cloud developments point toward a stronger focus on serving organizations with a global footprint. Yeah, but what do *they* know about working at scale?
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Despite years of refinement, Agile development still does not include architecture and design. This sprint we'll build it 3-tier. Next sprint we'll switch to microservices.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Next sprint we'll switch to microservices.
Nice one.
Marc
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OT
Congrats on your article on NetTuts
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Richard A. Abbott wrote: Congrats on your article on NetTuts
Thanks, it wasn't really my doing -- SyncFusion, who commissioned and publishes the e-book, has a partnership with Tuts, so that' how it got posted.
It was a bit of a kerfuffle at first when Kent posted about it -- I thought it was plagiarism because there was no mention of SyncFusion, but we got it all cleared up.
It would appear that all the chapters[^] are posted there now.
Marc
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IMHO - Agile is a project management methodology and nothing else.
Some up front design is a good thing, and architecture makes better outcomes - and if you can overcome the WIDC impulse for the first week or so of the project you will do well.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: WIDC ???
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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"Why isn't Duncan coding" - usually kicks in 10 minutes after the first project planning meeting. A belief that only keystrokes-in-IDE are progress.
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Know just what you mean... unfortunately...
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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IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Just in case you need to get peanut butter in your chocolate
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Sounds more like Maple Syrup in your Strawberry Jelly to me.
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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Last summer, an article on Fast Company asked an important question related to the increasingly popular picture-based character set called emoji, now found on the majority of modern smartphones: Are emoji racist? You mean, we're not all bright yellow? O.o
Glad someone's pushing this all-important issue
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You mean, we're not all bright yellow? O.o
*ahem*
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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EFF experts find only a handful of apps that meet basic security standards. Chat apps not secure? I am agog. (Oh, and Bob says, 'Hi')
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