Posts for January, 2007

Jan 31, 2007

IBM Jazzing Development Tools

IBM is working towards building programming tools for geographically distributed teams through an open source project called Jazz. I wonder if this is a part of the Collaborative Development Environment work that IBM is doing. Distributed teams have increased, not only because of outsourcing, but because Internet has made it possible to stay coordinated. [Continue]

Jan 31, 2007

Relationships In OO Languages

Gavin Bierman and Alisdair Wren published a paper that shows how to add first class relationships to Object Oriented Languages (pdf) (via LtU). At first instant I liked it. In some cases the relationships can be considered to be messages. [Continue]

Jan 31, 2007

Using Google Co-op

Lorelle’s comment jump-started my will to look for better Wordpress search. After some digging around, I decided that I did not want to change the database structure as that could cause problems with future upgrades. This threw away most of the search plugins out. [Continue]

Jan 30, 2007

Free Driver Development For Linux

The companies have nothing to say no to this! Greg Kroah-Hartman, an active Linux hacker, has offered developing Linux drivers for devices, for free. All that is required is a specification of how the device works, which hopefully will be available. [Continue]

Jan 30, 2007

Stories To Understand The Problem

Gautam Ghosh explains how stories can be effective tools for diagnosis. Although Gautam discusses from the perspective of a HR and OD consultant, the need for diagnosis and understanding the business is equally important while developing software. Not to confuse with the user stories in XP, these stories can help bring to forefront some aspects that usually documentation misses. [Continue]

Jan 30, 2007

Scope Of Backward Compatibility

Ian Murdock covers an awkward situation that forces backward compatibility. Changes in Vista are causing problems for a third-party software that works on Intuit Quickbooks. The backward compatibility can always be guaranteed within a scope. [Continue]

Jan 29, 2007

OpenID Through Yahoo!

Simon Willison has setup idproxy.net, that lets you use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID. In an ideal world, some or all of the sites with large user databases (Yahoo!, AOL, Google, Amazon and so on) would act as OpenID providers, allowing their users to sign in to OpenID supporting sites around the Web. [Continue]

Jan 29, 2007

Easiest Installation Of Linux On Windows

Are you one of the harassed Windows users? Are you holding off saying goodbye to Windows just because it is too much of a hassle to download and burn images? Well, use Windows to install Linux and say goodbye to Microsoft. [Continue]

Jan 29, 2007

Adobe Opening PDF To ISO

Scoble broke the news that Adobe is opening up the specification of PDF. PDF is one of the early document types that worked across various platforms. Although it is commendable, I do not think it will cause new developments, tools like OpenOffice have supported PDF conversion for quite some time. [Continue]

Jan 29, 2007

How Was Desktop Linux In 2006?

OSDL, has published its first year-end report on the desktop Linux ecosystem. The report covers various issues like improvements, compatibility and interoperability, standards, new applications and market growth. It concluded with The past year was a year of steady growth and development for desktop Linux. [Continue]