Comment: Even a Geek Can Speak (Score 1) 153
Joey Asher also wrote "Even a Geek Can Speak" - a book I give to just about anyone starting out giving presentations. This book looks just as awesome - can't wait to pick it up!
Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business->
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Anml4ixoye writes "Tester Michael Bolton (yes, that's his real name) has a great article entitled Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business. From the post: "The quality assurance role in the company, Cem said, lay with the management and the CEO (the principal quality officer in the company), since it was they—and certainly not the testers—who had the authority to make decisions about quality." It's a must read for any tester, developer or manager who works with software projects, and came about as a result of my challenge: "Having a QA department is a sign of incompetency in your Development department. Discuss.""
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Microsoft .NET Libraries go "Closed Source" again
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figleaf writes "Three years ago, with much fanfare Microsoft announced it will make some the .Net libraries open source using their Microsoft Reference License. Since then Microsoft has reneged on its promise. The reference code site is dead, the blog is no longer updated and no one from Microsoft responds to any questions on the forum."
Comment: Re:Video (Score 3, Interesting) 1671
This was my thought as well. The analysis was wrong ("They have weapons! He has an RPG! Several AK-47s!") and that's a mistake which shows the need for better analysis. I mean, the guy did appear to have an RPG to me before they opened fire, but it didn't look like he was pointing it at any of them.
Far worse was the decision not to evacuate the kids. I mean, the soldiers on the ground had a much better view of what was going on, and to deny that was a travesty. And the cover-up makes it all that much worse.
In general, I see this as bad intelligence leading to a unfortunate call by soldiers looking to keep themselves safe. That doesn't excuse what happened by the commanders by any means. But I can't image being in that pilot's seat. Or the ground soldier when they made the call not to evacuate the kids.
Bill Gates helps fund mass circumcision programme ->
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Cory Foy writes "From the New Scientist article: "Microsoft founder Bill Gates last week injected $50 million into a programme to circumcise up to 650,000 men in Swaziland and Zambia...Funded for five years through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the programme is the first to massively scale up provision of circumcision by fully trained medical practitioners.""
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Swapping Developers to Beat the Recession->
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Cory Foy writes "There are many unique ways to beat the recession — cutting staff, cutting perks, etc. But what about taking one of your most senior developers and sending them — to your competitor? And getting one of their senior people in return? That's exactly what the companies 8th Light and Obtiva out of Chicago did a couple of weeks ago. They were encouraged by Corey Haines, who after getting laid off himself, set out on a pair programming tour around the country for room and board. The whole thing was featured in the Chicago Tribune over the weekend, and is a great way to show how innovation can truly happen."
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Comment: Re:Not us. (Score 4, Insightful) 322
Besides, if you really wanted to block them, wouldn't one just block the Googlebot? Or nofollow the entire site? Or robots.txt the entire site?
What they really want is to be in the top of the search results without having to have the stuff out there. You can't have it both ways.
Comment: Re:Wow, they know where the president is (Score 1) 273
The point is that
Of course, they could just have him not have it some of the times, or put it in the motorcade when he isn't, etc, etc. I'd imagine that you could use some of the attacks mentioned in the article to foil the above scenario even without the president having a BB. For example, if you know which phones are SS phones, and suddenly 5 or 6 are *way* away from the "motorcade" you might suspect something is up.
For the US, I'd imagine it not being too big of an issue - but the point with him being in foreign countries is pretty important.
Comment: Re:iTouch (Score 1) 216
(Notice: I'm the reviewer)
iDang it. iI'm iSorry. iI iGot iToo iCaught iUp iIn iIing iEverything.
- iCory
Beginning iPhone Development 216
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from the read-all-about-it dept.
from the read-all-about-it dept.
Cory Foy writes "When my wife got a Touch several months back, the first thing I wanted to do was build some applications for it. Who wouldn't want to play with a device that has accelerometers, position sensors and multi-touch gestures? But being new to the Mac world, I needed something to help guide me along. Beginning iPhone Development aims to be that guide. But does it live up to the challenge of teaching a newbie Mac and iPhone developer?" Read below for the rest of Cory's review.