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| Designer Offers 199 Free iPhone Wallpapers |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 6:19 am |
| Tags: News Software |
| Free iPhone Wallpapers (news/software/designer-offers-199-free-iphone-wallpapers-20070726292) July 26, 2007 A very talented designer ^manicho from DeviantART is offering a free download of 199 iPhone wallpapers (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59902072) offering countless ways to customize your iPhone wallpaper |
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| NewsGator Mobile for iPhone Now Available |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 1:34 pm |
| Tags: News Software |
| iPhone Now Available (news/software/newsgator-mobile-for-iphone-now-available-20070725290) July 25, 2007 NewsGator has announced the availability of NewsGator Mobile for iPhone, a free reader that complements the great design and interface of the iPhone. NewsGator Mobile for iPhone works in conjunction with any free NewsGator Online |
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| PressDisplay Now Available for iPhone |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 6:03 am |
| Tags: News Software |
| PressDisplay Now Available for iPhone (news/software/pressdisplay-now-available-for-iphone-20070725288) July 25, 2007 NewspaperDirect has announced that the world's largest online newspaper kiosk, PressDisplay.com, is now available on the iPhone, and as it is being offered free of charge for one month to all iPhone users. |
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| Fascinating article in Saudi Aramco World: Saudi A... |
| Published: July 20, 2007, 7:18 am |
| Tags: Osama Bin Laden, Fatwas, Gulf Internet, Al Qaeda, Arabic Software |
| Fascinating article in Saudi Aramco World: Saudi Aramco World, Keyboard Calligraphy, July/August 2007, "That reconstruction is at the heart of the new Tasmeem computer typesetting system, which makes it possible for the first time to set Arabic text in its full calligraphic glory. (Tasmeem means design in Arabic.) An example was in the |
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| Humans Can Still Out-Bluff Machines |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 4:10 pm |
| Tags: Software |
| more difficult challenge for software designers than chess and checkers because of uncertainties introduced by the hidden cards held by each player and difficult-to-quantify risk-taking behaviors such as bluffing. The game-tree approach doesn't work in poker because in many situations there is no one best move and a top-notch player adapts his |
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| Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 11:55 am |
| Tags: Software |
| Open Source IT writes "According to a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2007, Dell is working on getting better ATI drivers for Linux for use in its Linux offerings. While it is not known whether the end product will end up as open source, with big businesses like Google and Dell now behind the push for better Linux graphics drivers, hopefully ATI will |
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| Mom Says No software allows parental control over children's online time, reduces confrontation |
| Published: July 17, 2007, 5:09 pm |
| Tags: Children, Parenting, Technology, Automation, Chatroom, Children, Confrontation, Discipline, Internet, Msn, Software, Technology |
| software from UK-based Visionsoft called “Mom Says No” is set to allow parents to easily control how much time their children spend on the Internet, whilst reducing confrontation by taking out some of the human element (parent nagging) and replacing with an automated countdown timer. “We developed this product out of personal |
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| Making software visible |
| Published: June 10, 2007, 8:57 pm |
| Tags: Working Software |
| book, Quality Software Management: Vol. 2, First-Order Measurement, and came across the following: Software’s nature is to be invisible, unless we work to make it visible…. During a construction project, we can see the building rising; but during a software project, all we may be able to see is a |
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| Making TDD and Java Swing behave |
| Published: May 9, 2007, 10:20 pm |
| Tags: Working Software |
| Recently, I wrote about using the JfcUnit and Abbot frameworks to test-drive the creation of a Java Swing GUI. Since then, a post by Liz Keogh on the ExtremeProgramming yahoogroup led me to another option. It a wrapper around Swing written in conjunction with JBehave, but as Liz points out, it’s not dependent [...] |
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| TDD and Java Swing |
| Published: April 25, 2007, 1:41 am |
| Tags: Working Software |
| It’s been awhile since I’ve written any Java Swing code, and doing so now is making me feel a little stupid. Test Driving the development of Swing hasn’t improved much since the last time I did this. Back in 2003, Jeff Waltzer and I decided to experiment with TDDing a Swing application to see if [...] |
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| TDD and Exploratory Testing |
| Published: April 9, 2007, 10:22 am |
| Tags: Working Software |
| I’ve often found that Developers and Testers misunderstand each other, even when they have a congenial relationship. (And in some shops, the relationship is anything but congenial.) Developers often don’t see the value of the Testers, or get annoyed that the Testers find issues that weren’t mentioned in the requirements. |
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| Just one of those things |
| Published: March 19, 2007, 2:31 pm |
| Tags: Working Software |
| I’ve been neglecting this blog, lately, partly because I’ve been busy working on a software development process assessment for a client. In doing this, one of the meetings I observed was a post mortem of a release failure. The developers involved noted that they’d seen some connection drops by the webserver on the [...] |
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| Learn the trade and the tricks will follow |
| Published: February 25, 2007, 10:55 pm |
| Tags: Working Software |
| I’ll never forget the 11th grade English class when Mr. Ervin departed from his usual lessons in literature, and lectured us on this topic for the full hour. “Learn the trade and the tricks will follow.” As he repeated this simple advice, he bemoaned the fact that everyone was looking for the shortcuts, looking [...] |
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| Interface between Domain layer and Persistence layer |
| Published: February 13, 2007, 11:20 am |
| Tags: Working Software |
| What’s in a name? I happened across Debasish Ghosh’s post “Inject Repositories, not DAOs in Domain Entities” and it triggered a few thoughts. In this post, he suggests that the Data Access Objects that perform database reads and writes should be wrapped in a Repository wrapper to isolate the domain layer from the details |
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| iFuntastic 2.0 enables mortals to mod their iPhone |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 1:20 pm |
| Tags: Apple, Bitsplit, Dev Wiki, Devwiki, Download, Hack, Ifuntastic, Iphone, Iphone Dev Wiki, Iphonedevwiki, Software |
| released version 2.0 of the software, which goes the extra mile and enables mere mortals (read: folks who aren't down with code speak) to "add ringtones, change the carrier logo, and reorder their iPhone applications." Best of all, this here software is completely free to use, but unless you've got an Intel-based Mac, you won't get very far. So |
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