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Comment Re:Intel will not allow MS a free hand... (Score 1) 179

by SlashRdr on Sunday June 17, 2012 @04:53AM (#40350127) Attached to: Windows 8: .NET Versus HTML5 Metro App Development

Yes, CF isn't wonderful. I just mentioned it to indicate it wouldn't be hard to get the full version of .Net running on ARM. The metro interface is a good way to have something shiny and "new" looking to sell copies of Windows 8 and their newer phones. I don't think people will be forced to write metro apps to have a business app that runs on top of windows 8. I haven't tried out their new SDK to confirm it though.

Comment Re:Intel will not allow MS a free hand... (Score 1) 179

by SlashRdr on Sunday June 17, 2012 @02:45AM (#40349689) Attached to: Windows 8: .NET Versus HTML5 Metro App Development

Huh? Microsoft doesn't need Intel to port .Net apps. .Net applications are MSIL code and should work for for any platform they have a byte-code compiler for, including ARM. Microsoft has had .Net running on ARM devices (Compact Framework) for 10 years. Here's a real article from Microsoft outlining development for ARM. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2012/06/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-developing-for-windows-on-arm-woa.aspx

Comment I just wanna have fun (Score 1) 460

by SlashRdr on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @09:00AM (#36092652) Attached to: Is Process Killing the Software Industry?

Of course doing everything to an extreme isn't a cost effective way of working. If he has his way the other developers on his team would leave or kill themselves: "But, for example, maybe junior (or specialized) developers should be writing the unit tests, leaving the more seasoned developers free to concentrate on the actual implementation of the application.". Sounds a little arrogant to me.

How Zynga's CityVille Drew 70 Million Players In Less Than a Month 101

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @07:42AM from the none-of-us-are-as-dumb-as-all-of-us dept.

An article at Gamasutra takes an in-depth look at how Zynga's new browser-based social game CityVille managed to accumulate tens of millions of players in the relatively short time since its launch early this month. Quoting: "The Facebook interface induces a high degree of user blindness. It does not do a great job of exposing new games and applications, and lacks a directory or a 'Featured in the App Store' style of editorial (as Apple does for the iPhone), which means that for most developers there are huge problems in getting their games in front of users' eyeballs. With all of the free advertising channels on the platform now constrained or dead, this has meant that the Facebook economy has been acquiring an increasingly Darwinian shape. Where it used to be an egalitarian environment in which any developer could strike it big, over the last year it has become top-heavy with larger developers accruing exponential success, and cutting off oxygen to smaller companies by default."

We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance 260

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 16, 2009 @10:06PM from the phbs-to-the-contrary-notwithstanding dept.

davecb writes "The ACM has been kind enough to print Paul Stachour's and my 'jack' article about Software Maintenance. Paul first pointed out back in 1984 that we and our managers were being foolish — when we were still running Unix V7 — and if anything it's been getting worse. Turns out maintenance has been a 'solved problem in computer science' since at least then, and we're just beginning to rediscover it."

Comment Re:Useful to convince under performers (Score 1) 262

by SlashRdr on Sunday March 15, 2009 @03:25PM (#27201781) Attached to: Data Mining Moves To Human Resources

I can see it being useful to discourage people from hoarding information for job security and promote sharing to help make the other people on a given team more productive. (Assuming the analysis is sophisticated enough to avoid being easily gamed and gives enough detail for managers to drill down into).

Comment Re:When I was breaking in (Score 1) 726

by SlashRdr on Monday January 12, 2009 @05:14PM (#26423099) Attached to: More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software

Having passion and a related formal education aren't mutually exclusive.

I don't think you will see too many people going into CS these days in the west solely for an easy paycheck, unlike during the tech boom in the late 90s.

The boom mentality seems to be alive and well in India though. I suffered through interviewing several people from a commercial tech training school there last year that had no clue... people from other walks of life, like an arts grad, hoping to magically get a high pay tech job by taking a few classes.

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