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December 2011
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Process management for software development companies
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– Our bugtracker system has grown far beyond bugtracking, and that is the time where you need to realize, that bugtracking is not much different from managing a construction site, a catering company or many other kinds of businesses. It's all about automating the process, and this requires a generic ...
July 2011
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Google+ is a different approach
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– Many try to compare Facebook with Google+, and often they conclude that Facebook har more friends, so they will not switch to Google+, even though Google+ has some nice features. However, Google+ should not be analyzed as a Facebook killer. It isn't. Facebook has a huge head start, and even though ...
June 2011
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Is WPF+Silverlight dead on Windows?
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– Does anybody still remember WinForms? If you think WinForms is old outdated technology, and WPF is the new and cozy, you might want to go on Youtube and look at the Windows 8 previews. Microsoft was dead serious when they embraced HTML5 and JavaScript last year, HTML5 and JavaScript seems to be the ...
March 2011
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OOP Spaghetti code explained
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– The term "spaghetti code" is usually attributed to pre-OOP code, but there is a lot of OOP code out there that is definitely entangled and a mess. I have seen quite some of it in my carreer, and this kind of spaghetti is characterized by its dependencies. An class is nothing else than a data ...
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Why startups don't use .net
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– There have been several articles over the last couple of weeks about the usefulness of .net for startups. I will mention three: * Did the Microsoft stack kill MySpace? * Why we don't hire .net programmers * Why Microsoft could kill your startup career Even though our company is now several years ...
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Open Source vs. commercial software
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– I was recently asked, where does Open Source make sense? This is a hard question, because it depends on the objective. Some people argue from a freedom perspective, nerds can modify anything. But freedom is also the freedom of choice, and enforcing Open Source everywhere would definitely be ...
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Apple leaves the PC era
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– In the recent iPad 2 announcement by Apple, Steve Jobs revealed, that Apple now earns most money on post-PC products like iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV etc. This tendency does not need to continue for a long time, before the Mac computers are reduced to merely strategic products for the company.
February 2011
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Why Microsoft and Nokia have a chance
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– Many iPhone and Android fans don't believe that Nokia and Microsoft have much chance to succeed. While everybody agrees that they wouldn't have a chance without good partners, few seem to agree that they can do much together. The most frequent explanation is that their level of innovation is too ...
December 2010
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The future of C#, the bloat explosion, and what happened instead
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– Looking back on this video with Anders Hejlsberg, about the future of C#, from march 2009, or this blog post about the upcoming bloat explosion, seems quite awkward with the current explosion of iOS and especially Android. There are numerous awkward parts in the video: The focus on objects, the ...
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Android sells better than Windows to consumers
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– If you look into the news, there seems to be consensus about the numbers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/29/apple-ipad-cannibalising-pc-sales "Gartner forecasts that worldwide PC shipments for 2011 will reach 409m units" = 1.1 million per day. It is fair to expect less than 40% of ...
November 2010
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GTK+ app interfaces using HTML5
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– This impressive demo of a web application deserves more publicity. I am quite sure that this is not the last GUI toolkit that interfaces with generic web browsers.
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R.I.P Microsoft Windows?
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– Microsoft is usually very good at presenting new products years ahead of the actual launch - but there continues to be a very remarkable absence of a single strategy for support of Windows applications or Windows as a well integrated desktop. Android provides many improvements that Windows does not ...
October 2010
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TIOBE index decomposed
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– This post presents a different way to look at the TIOBE index. Of the top 20 languages, I exclude non-generic languages, like SQL or MATLAB. The next is to group the languages by performance characteristics: Compiled languages that produce very fast apps: * Ada * C * C++ * Delphi, Pascal * ...
July 2010
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What Nokia must do to stay relevant in mobile
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– Nokia is losing market share fast, which is being discussed in many places. Nokia's CEO Anssi Vanjoki also expressed his view on this topic. The number of mistakes, that Nokia currently does, is huge, let's take a few: * Focus on OS technology instead of customer-centric parameters. As Anssi puts ...
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Apple iPhone 4 signal strength indicator highlights a common problem
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– It is old knowledge that if progress bars go faster at the end, the user is happy. In other words, if the progress bar is modified so that it doesn't show the perfect progress percentage, you get a better customer satisfaction. The same principle applies to other indicators, like battery indicators ...
