Frederick P. Brooks Jr. has written about prototypes, saying that they are not only useful but strictly fundamental pieces of the overall software process, as in many other engineering activities. He gives the example of a pilot chemical plant, prepared to process 10′000 units per day instead of the 2 million units a day that [...]
Dangers of Prototyping
August
15,
2008
Opinion · Papers · Project Management
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App Store arrived!
July
10,
2008
Click on the “Applications” item in iTunes, and you’ll see this at the bottom of the screen:
Clicking there, you’ll get to the App Store:
Apple · Technology
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Basic vs. Digest
July
7,
2008
In the series of highly boring posts ;) here’s another one; in this case, a simple explanation of two different authentication protocols available in the HTTP standard.
HTTP Basic Authentication Protocol
This is the simplest HTTP Authentication protocol available:
The browser sends a request to a protected resource: GET /index.html
The server looks for the “Authenticated” header [...]
How to? · Papers · Technology
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Pourquoi pas?
May
21,
2008
(Cet article a été publié sur Profession-Web!)
Pourquoi ne peut-on pas avoir des conférences comme celle-ci, avec des mini-events comme celui-ci en parallèle en Romandie? Ou encore comme celle-ci? Ou bien comme cette autre! Ou celle-là!
Pourquoi pas? Est-ce que le marché est trop petit? Y a-t-il un manque d’intérêt général? Je pense que le problème est [...]
Opinion · Technology
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Electronlibre
March
4,
2008
I’ve been working at Electronlibre since the beginning of the year; a friend of mine told me that I fit perfectly well with the name of the company ;) In any case, Electronlibre is, simply put, the best place to work in Switzerland. And take a look at our clients: being here is playing in [...]
Humour · Switzerland · Technology
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Best books of 2007
January
23,
2008
I have several mantras in my life. One of them is to learn a new programming language every year. Another one is to read at least 6 technology-related books every year.
I’ve already talked about Erlang (and boy that was the most read article ever in the whole life of this blog! More than 1600 visits [...]