Category: Programming

01/23/07

Permalink 03:56:36 am, by Ritchie Annand Email , 380 words   English (CA)
Categories: Announcements [A], Programming

Amiga OS 4.0

It's being reviewed on Ars Technica, and it's out in a final release version. I find that spectacularly odd. I owned an Amiga; it took me through university, got me onto the Internet before most folks did, including the world wide web, and let me work… more »

12/21/06

Permalink 09:39:55 pm, by Ritchie Annand Email , 170 words   English (CA)
Categories: Reviews, Programming

Photo Acute

A friend of mine had pondered putting together a program where you could take a lot of photos of the same scene, with a tiny bit of movement in-between, and then you could do some interpolation and get a sort of super-resolution that your camera could no… more »

11/03/06

Permalink 12:49:01 am, by Ritchie Annand Email , 608 words   English (CA)
Categories: Reviews, Books, Programming

Peopleware - Productive Projects and Teams : DeMarco & Lister

This is an interesting paperback concerning itself with how companies are run where the business is development, like code, as opposed to production, like cheeseburgers. In particular, there is a focus on what sort of management mismatches and business p… more »

10/22/05

Permalink 11:13:38 pm, by Ritchie Annand Email , 215 words   English (CA)
Categories: Reviews, Programming, Toys

Bubble, Bubble, Build's In Trouble

Well, my coworker Robert actually went out and did it :) I came back to work after my wedding to see two lava lamps on top of the filing cabinet outside our office. We've been a fan of the Pragmatic Programmer people for a long time. They hav… more »

10/07/05

Permalink 01:46:19 am, by Ritchie Annand Email , 1034 words   English (CA)
Categories: Reviews, Programming

.NET and Delphi 2005

WARNING: Technical :) I'm not going to talk totally in depth about Borland's environment here, though I will contrast a few pieces with the Visual Studio running on Tom's desk. Don't take these comments as indicative overall; they are just particula… more »

09/18/05

Permalink 02:11:40 am, by Ritchie Annand Email , 1565 words   English (CA)
Categories: Reviews, Programming

Subversion

No spies or anarchy here, at least in the traditional sense. I'm talking here about a magnificent little version control system, and if you're programming or even maintaining documents, it is a godsend. For those who don't know what version control… more »