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The HyperCard Legacy [Theory, Mac]: Programming for the People | by Jer Thorp | CreativeApplications.Net
"HyperCard effectively disappeared a decade a go, making way for supposedly bigger and better things. But in my mind, the end of HyperCard left a huge gap that desperately needs to be filled – a space for an easy to use, intuitive tool that will once again let average computer users make their own tools. Such a project would have huge benefits for all of us, wether we are artists, educators, entrepreneurs, or enthusiasts." Lovely piece by Jer Thorp on Hypercard. I've mentioned Hypercard is quite formative for me, right?
mac  hypercard  programming  software 
11 weeks ago by infovore
daniel sinker • Hacker-Journalism 2011: A year of "show your work"
An Impressive list of notable examples of programmatic journalism from Dan Sinker; something I must return to.
data  programming  journalism  code  software 
december 2011 by infovore
angry, productive birds (tecznotes)
"You can control time when you can see it." Things I like here: half-day resolution; tracking time as a group, rather than solo activity; the value of projects that may be numerically "over budget". Meetings as "0" is interesting; I'm not sure about that yet.
management  project  stamen  mikemigurski  software 
december 2011 by infovore
Why are you still deploying overnight? | Brian Crescimanno
"The claim is that by avoiding the daylight hours, fewer customers will be impacted by the rollout.  Problem 1: You presume there will be problems that impact availability.  You have no confidence in your code quality; or (or maybe, and), you have no confidence in your infrastructure and deployment process.  If you lack confidence that your new system is ready for production, you probably shouldn’t be pushing it to production!"
software  development  ops  deployment 
october 2011 by infovore
Agile Software Is A Cop-Out; Here’s What’s Next | Forrester Blogs
"Software development is not pure coding, engineering, architecture, management, or design. It is cross-disciplinary. Better yet, it is its own discipline. It is more akin to making a movie than to building automobiles on an assembly line. The studio revolves around talent. Great software talent means renaissance developers who have passion, creativity, discipline, domain knowledge, and user empathy. These traits are backed by architecture, design, and by technical know-how that spans just knowing the technology flavor of the day. Process is the studio; it has structure but is flexible enough to optimize talent and tools." This post is as dogmatic as what it rails against, but it's good at finding flaws in dogma and then pushing towards a more sympathetic view. And this paragraph is the best bit.
software  development  culture  technology 
october 2011 by infovore
Mac OS X Lion Samba and AFP workarounds | frankly at a glance.
Uh-oh. Hoping I won't have to be looking into this any time soon.
software  nas  osx  lion 
july 2011 by infovore
Experimenting with Piracy – An Indie Mac Developer’s Perspective
"I was serious. I presented the pirates with a choice. A one-time, limited offer that was only good right there and then. They could either click the “No thanks, I’d rather just keep pirating this software button” or they could be taken directly to my store’s checkout page along with a hefty discount." A thoughtful post on dealing with piracy - and some lovely examples of copywriting to boot.
development  software  piracy  copywriting 
july 2011 by infovore
Creating new worlds « Bloom Blog
"I needed to get up to speed with doing recursive node structures so I coded up a project that would put a dot on the screen. When you tapped this dot, it would create a bunch of orbiting child-dots. These children could also be tapped, creating even more child nodes. This prototype took less than a day to create and I naively thought we would be done with the whole thing in a week, max. Silly me."

Marvellous, dense post from Robert on designing Planetary: lots of show-everything, material exploration, and plussing. What detail looks like.
design  software  bloom  planetary  detail  plussing 
july 2011 by infovore
DTerm: A command line anywhere and everywhere
"Command line work isn't a separate task that should live on its own—it's an integrated part of your natural workflow. DTerm provides a context-sensitive command line that makes it fast and easy to run commands on the files you're working with and then use the results of those commands." This looks great. Will report back on it.
terminal  mac  osx  utilities  software 
april 2011 by infovore
Anatomy of a Crushing (Pinboard Blog)
"We were a niche site and in the course of eighteen months had siphoned off about six thousand users from our massive competitor, a pace I was was very happy with and hoped to sustain through 2011. But now the Senior Vice President for Bad Decisions at Yahoo had decided to give us a little help." Maciej on what Scaling Pinboard Fast actually looked like. Some good anecdotes in here.
architecture  web  software  performance  pinboard  scaling 
march 2011 by infovore
PeteSearch: Data is snake oil
"Next time somebody's trying to sell you on the awesomeness of their new data technique, ask to see a prototype. If they haven't got that far, it's snake oil." Everything in this article is, basically, true. It's a really good run-down of all the issues that emerge in the reality of dealing with data-driven products at any scale."
data  prototyping  materialexploration  software 
december 2010 by infovore
Marco.org - The Mac App Store isn't for today's Mac developers
"...if the Mac App Store is only populated by a subset of today’s Mac software, a few key points (such as “Inexpensive”) still won’t be true. This is why I believe that the Mac App Store will be dominated by (and become known for) apps that don’t exist on the Mac today." This is really good. It might even be right; regardless, it's thoughtful and well-argued.
appstore  mac  osx  development  distribution  software 
october 2010 by infovore
Open Source is about the differences - Apache Asserts
"One million changes, nearly three thousand developers... At the end of the day, we just sail and log our collective journey through the Sea of Changes to the software commons." Very nice, and as James said: yep, he gets it.
software  change  history  historiography  development 
september 2010 by infovore
Official Google Blog: App Inventor for Android
Another potential response to my regular "come on, where's Hypercard?" query.
software  programming  creation  android  mobile 
july 2010 by infovore
MarsEdit 3 - Desktop blog editing for the Mac.
MarsEdit 3 is out; the headline feature is the WYSIWYG mode, but for me, the headline features are syntax-highlighting, support for Wordpress Pages, and integration with Lightroom's library. Sadly, it's 10.6 only, and my knackered MBP is 10.5... but it's an upgrade I'll be making asap.
blog  editor  software  osx  mac  blogging  marsedit 
may 2010 by infovore
ReBirth for iPhone — Home
Blimey, ReBirth, entirely ported to iPhone and on the App Store. Looks finickity, but it was loads of fun, and for $7... I might end up with that.
rebirth  music  software  propellerhead  iphone 
may 2010 by infovore
freerange's manifesto at master - GitHub
"This information describes how Free Range operates, both as a business and as a culture.

We're open-sourcing our business, from the site to the contracts to the philosopy. Value does not come from these things, but from putting these ideas into practice. These ideas are not assets - we, the people, are.

Fork this." Free Range have put their manifesto and operating principles onto Github.
github  freerange  business  software  development  process  opensource 
may 2010 by infovore
ardour - the digital audio workstation
Open source DAW for Linux and OSX.
audio  daw  osx  linux  sound  recording  software  opensource 
april 2010 by infovore
Panic - Transmit - The ultimate Mac OS X FTP + SFTP + S3 app
Transmit 4 is looking really good; Transmit Disk, especially.
macosx  transmit  application  ftp  software  panic 
april 2010 by infovore
LICENSE.markdown at master from SFEley's candy - GitHub
"This is a proposed draft of the Don't Be a Dick license for open source projects. The purpose of this license is to permit the broadest feasible scope for reuse and modification of creative work, restricted only by the requirement that one is not a dick about it." Much to recommend here.
software  licensing  dbad  dicks 
april 2010 by infovore
Preview: Instapaper on iPad - Instapaper Blog
"No huge surprises, except maybe that I changed to dark toolbars. No multi-column reading, no fake book-page animations, and no giant newspaper graphics." Great explanation of Instapaper on the iPad from Marco. And: I'm sure it'll be great; in the past two months, I've become a total Instapaper convert.
instapaper  ipad  app  design  software 
march 2010 by infovore
The Story: Notes on a conference in disguise | booktwo.org
"Magick is all about naming and control. So is journalism, and software engineering—related disciplines." yes yes yes a thousand times yes (the most wonderful sentence in James' write-up of a non-conference I didn't attend).
naming  journalism  magic  control  software  thestory  jamesbridle 
february 2010 by infovore
AquaPath
"AquaPath is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to evaluate XPath 2.0 expressions against any XML document and view the result sequence in a dynamic, intuitive tree representation." It is really good, and has already saved my bacon today.
xpath  xml  osx  visualisation  software  tool  development 
december 2009 by infovore
Grackle68k - Twitter Application for Classic Macintoshes
"Grackle68k is a twitter client for early Macintoshes running System 6 through OS9."
retro  mac  software  twitter  application  classic 
november 2009 by infovore
flogr - Project Hosting on Google Code
"Flogr shows your pictures from flickr in a customizable photo portfolio interface which includes a main photo page with EXIF details and flickr user comments, a customizable thumbnails page of your recent work, a slideshow component to browse through thumbnails, a tag cloud page, and an about page that shows your flickr user profile. With flogr you can control which photos are shown by specifying the flickr tag(s) to include so you can show only your best photographs if you choose." Which is something I've been looking for for a while. Glad I didn't have to write it, now.
flickr  photography  photoblog  webapp  software 
november 2009 by infovore
Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font
"Fortunately, modern displays can display characters that look exactly like this without special circuitry used in the original DEC terminals and there is free software that can be used to create a usable outline font out of a PNG image." Recreating VT220 terminal fonts in software, and from thence into Truetype.
terminal  typography  fonts  retro  software 
november 2009 by infovore
AI Ruby Plugins
"This page will maintain list of AI related libraries for the Ruby programming language." Some interesting stuff here, although it's all in varying degrees of maturity...
ruby  ai  machinelearning  collectiveintelligence  algorithms  software  libraries  gems 
october 2009 by infovore
Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets – Shawn Blanc
"On your computer exists your hobbies, your current and/or future career, and the rest of your daily life. You don’t own a snowboard, but you do have a blog, a Twitter, an RSS reader, and a pirated copy of Photoshop. You, my friend, need an Anything Bucket."
yojimbo  organisation  osx  application  productivity  software  mac 
september 2009 by infovore
Newtoy | Kicking off a revolution in gaming with your friends on the iPhone and iPod Touch
Words With Friends: it's like Scrabulous, but on your iPhone, with push notification. There is little more that needs to be said, other than that it's a very good implementation with some nice UI detail.
games  iphone  scrabble  software  multiplayer  app 
august 2009 by infovore
Warhammer Online for Mac - jerakeen.org
"It seems to me that Transgaming have done more to hurt the Mac gaming world than anyone else. The idea that you can turn your product into a Mac game OVERNIGHT, without employing ANYONE WHO SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT THE PLATFORM is an absurd thing to peddle."
tominsam  games  porting  transgaming  osx  mac  software 
august 2009 by infovore
When I Enter the Office, the Imperial March Plays — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
Thoughtbot discover their RFID door-lock system has an API. A short bash at some code later, and they now have theme songs when they enter the office.
physicalcomputing  music  tunes  themesong  thoughbot  software  hack  code 
july 2009 by infovore
:: v a n . d e n . b r a n d e :: Breadbox64
"BREADBOX64 is a twitter client for the C64/128 which allows you to tweet from a real C64 and show your friends timeline." Now that's a classy look.
twitter  software  c64  retro 
june 2009 by infovore
Rands In Repose: A Deep Breath
"An obsessive meeting schedule is an investment in the boring, but by defining a specific place for the boring to exist, you’re allowing every other moment to have creative potential. You’re encouraging the random and random is how you’re going to win. Random is how you’re going to discover a path through a problem that one else has found and that starts with breathing deeply." Oh. That's an interesting way of looking at it.
management  software  design  development  engineering  meetings  structure  rands  organization  strategy  business 
june 2009 by infovore
Ian Bogost - Guru Meditation
"Guru Meditation also reminds us of the long history of experimentation with physical controllers in the mainstream consumer videogame market, even when both that market and its critics would have us believe that physical interfaces are as new as DDR or Nintendo Wii." A game for Atari 2600 + Joyboard, and also available as an iPhone port; make the yogi fly by sitting perfectly still, and perfectly upright. Written in assembler, and everything.
games  software  atari  vcs  balance  meditation  ianbogost 
may 2009 by infovore
Propellerhead - Record
"Record gives you unlimited audio tracks, world class effects and mixing gear, and a whole new take on music recording." Lovely: seamless Reason integration, virtual Line6 Pods, and a DAW-ish bit of software that works the way my brain does. Excited!
software  recording  propellerhead  record  music  audio 
may 2009 by infovore
Skew, The Frontend Engineer's Misery @ Irrational Exuberance
"With limited influence, unlimited hands in the pie, a low barrier to critique, and the perception of triviality, frontend engineers are the janitors of software development. Rather than cleaning up trash, the boulder they toil beneath is skew: the distance between team member's conceptions of a project." This really feels very familiar: it's the most under-appreciated art in the stack of software development, and the one that takes the brunt of the crap.
engineering  programming  development  frontend  product  software  project  management 
april 2009 by infovore
Rands In Repose: Keynote Kung-fu Two
"The original Keynote Kung-fu article describes how to set up and use Keynote for the first time, but once you’ve done a couple of presentations, you’re going to want more." Rands drops some Keynote science, and I learn at least one new thing.
presentation  keynote  software  osx  speaking  tips 
april 2009 by infovore
My Scrivener Setup for Novel Writing | Boomer Blogger-WineontheKeyboard
Nice post about using Scrivener for novel-writing, and a reminder as to how Targets work within it (which is handy for journalism).
scrivener  osx  novel  software  mac  writing 
april 2009 by infovore
Prezi - The zooming presentation editor
"With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way." Oh. Now that looks interesting.
animation  software  presentation  tools 
march 2009 by infovore
TMI: Waterfall, Agile, Teen Sex and Category Errors
"Agile is like teen sex: Everyone wants to do it, many say they're doing it, only some actually are, and very few are doing it right." Yup.
programming  development  software  practice  process  agile 
march 2009 by infovore
f.lux
"F.lux fixes this: it makes your computer's lighting adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better." Perhaps not right for things that need to be color-managed... but might be good for everything else. And healthier.
osx  software  mac  lighting  time  color  temperature 
february 2009 by infovore
MagiCal | Software | Charcoal Design
"MagiCal is a FREE menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate either in conjunction with, or as a replacement for the built in system menu clock." Quite pretty, and makes a nice companion for FuzzyClock.
osx  software  calendar  mac  utility  time  date  menubar 
january 2009 by infovore
Katz Got Your Tongue? » Rails and Merb Merge
"Today is a fairly momentous day in the history of Ruby web frameworks. You will probably find the news I’m about to share with you fairly shocking, but I will attempt to explain the situation." Yehuda Katz weighs in with a great, informative post.
programming  development  ruby  rails  rubyonrails  web  software  merb 
december 2008 by infovore
Headspace
This appears to be some kind of 3D-tinged mind-mapping software; Flatblack were behind the rotoscoped look of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly; this is clearly an interesting digression for them.
3D  iphone  software  management  productivity  mindmapping  spatial 
december 2008 by infovore
How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
"If you want a recipe for restless sleep, I can give you one. Add one part “what will my wife think” with 3,000 parts Benjamin Franklin; stir in a “beer anytime you damn well please” and top with a chance at financial independence."
microsoft  development  business  software  github 
december 2008 by infovore
DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Chef
"Program recipes should not only generate valid output, but be easy to prepare and delicious." Chef is a programming language where the programs are also valid (if strange) recipes. The syntax description is proper crazy; gives Homespring a run for its money, easily, in the realm of metaphorical programming languages that embrace their metaphor.
software  programming  recipe  chef  language  bonkers 
december 2008 by infovore
When Linux fails | Tux Deluxe
"The outcome of this rampant illegal software copying is that Windows is seen as "the first world standard" and any attempt to push a cheaper alternative is strongly resisted. They consider it trying to cheat local people out of getting the same quality of software that is used in the developed world, even though it's a legal way of getting quality software for free." Not what you'd expect, but totally understandable: as said before, there is a middle class everywhere, and it has the same aspirations everywhere.
windows  opensource  linux  africa  aspiration  middleclass  software 
december 2008 by infovore
paulhammond.org: Minimuni
"As the about page says, if you live exactly 6 minutes from Sunset Tunnel East Portal, 8 minutes from Duboce and Church, and 10 minutes from Church Station you may find it useful too." Bespoke tools for yourself that might happen to be useful to others. I like this a lot.
travel  muni  sf  web  application  timetable  personal  situated  software 
december 2008 by infovore
Games are Software « Save the Robot - Chris Dahlen
"I come from a software background, as well as an artsy-fartsy one. I want to see games as art, but they’re also supposed to work as logically-constructed bodies of code. And in a lot of cases, reviewers need to see them as software rather than as art. Here’s why..." I think Steve has some good points here, but I'm not totally swung yet; after all, games might _be_ software, but do we _experience_ them as software? I'm not sure that we do, and that's why we respond to them in the manner we do.
games  software  criticism  review  development  stevegaynor 
december 2008 by infovore
TextMate productivity tips | 456 Berea Street
Amazingly, a few in here I didn't know - "move selection" and "delete only whitespace" for starters.
texmate  texteditor  tips  software 
november 2008 by infovore
An ABC of R2 | Help | guardian.co.uk
"A series looking at different aspects of guardian.co.uk's rebuild and redesign project, which ran from October 2005 to September 2008." Looks like there's going to be some good stuff emerging from this; great to see the Guardian making it so public.
architecture  software  development  design  guardian  publishing  online  blog 
november 2008 by infovore
blog.thoughtwax.com » Ambient software
"So that’s what I would like: software you can live with. Software that feels like music." Contextual software.
context  ambient  eno  software  art  music 
november 2008 by infovore
Rands In Repose: The Culture Chart
"I wasn’t concerned when Netscape started losing market share to Microsoft. I didn’t sweat it when the stock price stalled. The reason I started thinking about my next gig was, months before either of these two events occurred, one of the lunchtime bridge team left. The game stopped. The small group of four no longer spent a long lunch quietly, unknowingly defining the culture of the company and everyone who was watching noticed."
work  rands  culture  software  business  strategy  quality 
october 2008 by infovore
Godfather of Ambient Creates iPhone App | The Apple Blog
"Developed by Peter Chilvers, in collaboration with Eno, the app is described as, “Part instrument, part composition and part artwork…” The idea is that anybody can play with Bloom and coax gentle melodies and ambient soundscapes out of their iPhone."
software  music  iphone  ambient  eno  brianeno 
october 2008 by infovore
InfoQ: Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator
Fantastic presentation from Giles Bowkett, which is about generative music, art, shipping, Ruby, and building things for yourself.
programming  ruby  presentation  software  rubyfringe  music  generative  art 
october 2008 by infovore
Cosmovox - a Musical Instrument for the iPhone and iPod touch
"Cosmovox is a unique and innovative musical instrument for the iPhone and iPod touch." Nearly a theremin. Nearly.
software  iphone  music  instrument  accelerometer  spatial 
october 2008 by infovore
Media Molecule - we make games. » Blog Archive » LittleBigBang : The Evolution Of LittleBigPlanet
"Here is a video which gives some insight into how Little Big Planet ( and Media Molecule! ) evolved from next to nothing into what it is today!" MediaMolecule put the LBP repository into codeswarm, and then published the video. Lovely.
mediamolecule  codeswarm  versioncontrol  development  games  software  littlebigplanet 
october 2008 by infovore
Gamasutra - Moving From MMO To Web: What's The Story?
"People think the interface is the game, and I think that is kind of backwards. I think the game is the game, and we should be thinking what are the many interfaces to it... you touch Twitter in many ways, you touch Facebook in many ways." Raph Koster. But you guessed that, right?
web  mmo  social  software  design  socialsoftware  socialnetworking  casual  play  games 
september 2008 by infovore
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » *-computing
"There's a weird conceit in here, that the activities and practices of normal human beings will involve data processing and algorithms of some sort, which is an awfully big assumption. So big, in fact, that it has distilled down to a way of seeing the world as consisting of bits of data that can be processed into information that then will naturally yield some value to people... Design for people, practices and interaction rituals before the assumptions about computation, data structures and algorithms get bolted onto normal human interaction rituals."
computing  data  ubicomp  julianbleecker  social  software  socialsoftware  design 
september 2008 by infovore
Panda - Open source video platform
"Unlike other video platforms, Panda is not just a service for encoding your videos for the web; Panda handles the whole process. From the upload form to streaming, Panda takes control." Open source, Merb-based video platform that anyone can use - runs on top of Amazon EC2, S3, and SimpleDB.
video  upload  streaming  newbamboo  merb  ruby  application  web  software  development 
september 2008 by infovore
al3x.net: al3x's Rules for Computing Happiness
Simple, straightforward, pretty much correct.
computing  software  rules  tips  technology  plaintext 
september 2008 by infovore
Agile Game Development: Agile values - Responding to change over following a plan
"A popular misconception about agile is that it doesn’t allow for plans. This isn’t true. Agile focuses on the activity of planning rather than focusing on a fixed plan."
agile  software  development  projectmanagement  programming  project 
august 2008 by infovore
Wikka: Welcome to Wikka Wiki
WikkaWiki is a flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight wiki engine∞ written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. Forked from WakkaWiki. Designed for speed, extensibility, and security. Released under the GPL license.
wiki  php  software 
august 2008 by infovore
How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
"...for software developers, it's moronic. Your software isn't being released in theaters, it's available over the Web. You don't have to worry about the theater no longer showing after week one; you can keep pushing it for years, growing your userbase."
software  development  project  management  launch  strategy  projectmanagement 
august 2008 by infovore
The Omni Group - OmniDiskSweeper
"OmniDiskSweeper is a utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on your hard disks."
osx  software  utility  macosx  mac 
august 2008 by infovore
Frotz Review for iPhone | Touch Arcade
A Z-Code interpreter for the iPhone. Fantastic. If you have an iPhone: get this, and get Spider And Web. My work here is done.
software  ipod  iphone  infocom  zmachine  interactivefiction  games  narrative 
august 2008 by infovore
It's an HTTParty and Everyone Is Invited! // RailsTips.org by John Nunemaker
"The other day I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if that pattern were wrapped up as a present for me (and others) to use? The answer is yes and it is named HTTParty." This is total awesome. Now I want to do more webservices hacks.
webservices  rest  socialweb  xml  json  ruby  gem  software  architecture 
august 2008 by infovore
Transcendent Interactions: Collaborative Contexts and Relationship-based Computing
Oh my. Slides from Ludicorp's presentation in which they launched Flickr at ETech 2004. So much that's still so relevant, still not always understood. Wish I could just throw this at people at Develop instead of my talk.
design  community  architecture  software  relationships  social  flickr  people 
july 2008 by infovore
QA Deathmatch » “Hello World” - The SlickEdit Developer Blog
"Too often, developers only test their features and don’t go outside that box. [...] when you are in scoring mode, you’ll take the time to check out all the new features to see what you can break to score big." Rules for turning QA into a game.
bugs  qa  development  process  software  programming  game  play  rules 
july 2008 by infovore
RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS [Google Code]
Radiohead's new video was created using 3D scanning data and animated in software. The video has its own Google Code page. You can download the original data. Squee.
radiohead  music  video  animation  software  visualisation  3d  graphics  data 
july 2008 by infovore
Big Contrarian → The answer is no.
"The abundance of choice is not a concern, it is an asset. It provides our community with a more varied, more specialized toolbox, allowing us to select the optimal platform for the problem in front of us." A great post from Jack Shedd.
development  programming  software  learning  trends  web 
july 2008 by infovore
0xDECAFBAD » Queue everything and delight everyone
"...that's really the purpose of a web-based content creation interface—accepting something as quickly as possible to make the user happy enough to continue submitting more." Leslie Orchard on message-queue-based design.
queue  messaging  development  software  programming  architecture 
july 2008 by infovore
celemony_ :: Direct Note Access
This isn't helping my suspicions that Melodyne is some kind of dark magic. Incredible.
melodyne  music  audio  software  remarkable  crazy  magic 
june 2008 by infovore
IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons
"There's a bottom-line reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago: It's the single most expensive way there is to get the work done." Yes, yes, yes; a great article, with lots of good references.
overtime  crunch  productivity  software  development  programming  games  exploitation  labour  efficiency 
june 2008 by infovore
mikeash.com: QTAmateur for MacOS X
"QTAmateur is a small, simple QuickTime video player. It can play any format that QuickTime can understand, handle fullscreen video playback, and export files to any format that QuickTime can write." Cheaper than QTPro for converting Flip video files.
free  video  encoding  mac  osx  quicktime  application  software  utility 
june 2008 by infovore
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Two Cardinal Sins of REST API Design: Lessons you can Learn from the NewsGator REST API
"If you are going to build a RESTful API, do it right. Your developers will thank you for it." Dare is right; the Newsgator REST API is very lacking, to say the least. When I used it, it even missed documented functionality.
rest  api  newsgator  rubbish  development  architecture  software  engineering  design 
june 2008 by infovore
:: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: Rules made up by you
"I’ve reproduced the list [of rules from Lockheed’s Skunk Works] here with an identification of a modern software development rule or business practice that it corresponds to." Good stuff from Matt J. Can't wait to see his book.
software  development  management  projectmanagement  skunkworks  agile  scrum  process  practice  thoughtbot 
june 2008 by infovore
Twitter Blog: It's Not Rocket Science, But It's Our Work
I am amazed that anyone would have the patience to respond to Mike Arrington's general arsery, but it seem the Twitter team do. They are better men and women than I.
twitter  architecture  infrastructure  scaling  development  software 
june 2008 by infovore
Introducing Scrum at Large Animal
"...they need to keep thinking creatively about how they work together and continuously try to improve their process. This mindset is the key to high performing, self-organizing teams."
scrum  xp  agile  games  development  software  process  management  practice 
may 2008 by infovore
Colors! Gallery
Users' artwork from Colors! for the DS. Really quite impressive, some of this.
art  colors  ds  illustration  software  nintendo  homebrew 
may 2008 by infovore
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