I have always been fascinated with working at low levels in programming. Contrarily, I have always worked with higher level languages. Here are some great tips if you want to know more about your bitwise operations. If you are like me, you don't get enough chances to use this stuff to commit it to memory.
Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know - good coders code, great reuse
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
SteveStreeting.com � Blog Archive � Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer
The phone rings, co-workers talking about who knows what, the boss needs this and someone else needs that. How do you ever get any work done?
SteveStreeting.com � Blog Archive � Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer: "GTD (‘Next actions’),"
SteveStreeting.com � Blog Archive � Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer: "GTD (‘Next actions’),"
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
orona: Multiplayer websockets tank warfare game powered by Node.js - The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
This looks like it would be interesting to investigate. It is great to see these types of things making game development reachable to the common dev.
orona: Multiplayer websockets tank warfare game powered by Node.js - The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
orona: Multiplayer websockets tank warfare game powered by Node.js - The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
Monday, October 4, 2010
A Big Thank You to TinyPM
Not blogged in forever. Ran across this Agile PM software blog from Kelly Waters and thought it look interesting. I also wanted to see how to get Google Reader to Send To Blogger. It is really very simple.
A Big Thank You to TinyPM: "I'm delighted to announce that tinyPM is the new sponsor of my blog.
tinyPM is a web-based agile collaboration tool best suited to organisations running multiple projects with multiple distributed teams. It's not bound to any particular flavour of agile, as it fits well with any method that uses...
Visit my blog for the full story, links and lots more content on agile development and agile project management...
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A Big Thank You to TinyPM: "I'm delighted to announce that tinyPM is the new sponsor of my blog.
tinyPM is a web-based agile collaboration tool best suited to organisations running multiple projects with multiple distributed teams. It's not bound to any particular flavour of agile, as it fits well with any method that uses...
Visit my blog for the full story, links and lots more content on agile development and agile project management...
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Agile Project Management Software
I am going to take some time over the next few months to work with some different project management software. I would like to find something that is a good fit for small teams. I have been working in an agile shop for several years now. I hope to find some software that allows me to continue to work in an agile way. I don’t want to get weighed down with a lot of extra work. Further I want something that will work for both in house teams and remotely distributed teams.
It has been my experience that many software development techniques are designed for large teams working in a large corporate environment. For the majority of my career I have worked with small teams and have struggled to find development processes that were a good fit for small teams. This is why Agile is so attractive to me. It is light weight enough to not get in the way of developing the software. So now that I am comfortable working with Agile, I want to some help with bring together our remote developers and clients.
What I will be looking for is a tool for tracking user stories and tasks by user story. The software should provide assistance with agile estimating; building user story/task lists for each iteration, tracking project burn down and estimating project completion. The ability for remote users to stay on top of these stories and tasks is mandatory. I will throw in other requirements as they occur to me.
For evaluation of each package I am going to use a project that I am doing as a hobby with my son. We are working on a game for the Xbox 360 developed with the XNA game studio and C#. This will provide a familiar (at least for me) project without having to worry about disclosing any confidential client information.
This is not going to be a scientific look at each package. I am just going to figure it out as I go. I have not given much thought to what software I am going to review. I will start with a product that was introduced to me through an email list from The Code Project. The package is called onTime and is produced by axosoft. Axosoft has a 30 day free trail for its’ entire suite and a free single user license. After evaluating that package I will begin searching for another package. I you have any thoughts on other software I should look at or requirements I should evaluate I would like to hear from you. Leave me a message in the comments or email me at bud underscore wheeler at hotmail dot com.
It has been my experience that many software development techniques are designed for large teams working in a large corporate environment. For the majority of my career I have worked with small teams and have struggled to find development processes that were a good fit for small teams. This is why Agile is so attractive to me. It is light weight enough to not get in the way of developing the software. So now that I am comfortable working with Agile, I want to some help with bring together our remote developers and clients.
What I will be looking for is a tool for tracking user stories and tasks by user story. The software should provide assistance with agile estimating; building user story/task lists for each iteration, tracking project burn down and estimating project completion. The ability for remote users to stay on top of these stories and tasks is mandatory. I will throw in other requirements as they occur to me.
For evaluation of each package I am going to use a project that I am doing as a hobby with my son. We are working on a game for the Xbox 360 developed with the XNA game studio and C#. This will provide a familiar (at least for me) project without having to worry about disclosing any confidential client information.
This is not going to be a scientific look at each package. I am just going to figure it out as I go. I have not given much thought to what software I am going to review. I will start with a product that was introduced to me through an email list from The Code Project. The package is called onTime and is produced by axosoft. Axosoft has a 30 day free trail for its’ entire suite and a free single user license. After evaluating that package I will begin searching for another package. I you have any thoughts on other software I should look at or requirements I should evaluate I would like to hear from you. Leave me a message in the comments or email me at bud underscore wheeler at hotmail dot com.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dell, Sigma-Tel, and Vista SP1
Looks like I am not the only one with these issues. I have read a couple of recent posts on this.
Vista.Blorge, Tech Arena, and Dell
The more I read on this the more I come to realize this is not a new problem. I have seen posts back 2007 that talk about this problem. Seems like there has been enough time for Dell to address this problem and offer a solution.
Possible Solutions:
Use the Windows Default Driver
Try a different Dell
driver.
I haven't tried any of these yet. Proceed at your own risk.
Vista.Blorge, Tech Arena, and Dell
The more I read on this the more I come to realize this is not a new problem. I have seen posts back 2007 that talk about this problem. Seems like there has been enough time for Dell to address this problem and offer a solution.
Possible Solutions:
Use the Windows Default Driver
Try a different Dell
driver.
I haven't tried any of these yet. Proceed at your own risk.
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