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Images: Barbie's greatest hits?
Mattel is trying to reach out to the next iteration of girls with an MP3 player designed to look like a doll that also hooks into an online virtual world.
Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, Mattel Inc., doll, MP3 player, MP3
Image galleries 2007-04-27
Practically iterating infrastructure projects
Iterations, iterations, iterations. Every time you look at project methodologies they talk about “iterative approaches” or “short development cycles” as if they were a panacea for all the ills of modern IT. In some ways they are; keeping things short and concrete, with tangible results, does do wonders...
Tags: hardware, iteration, Project Management, Project Manager, Project Planning, rack, Review, server, software, Team Management, Values, Wisdom
Blog posts 2007-01-26
Do methodologies make project management seem more complex than it is?
Have you ever been to one of those project management seminars where they preach about the virtues of the latest methodology? You know, the ones where they have extremely expensive consulting services and specially built software to sell to you? I just finished watching an exhaustive...
Tags: Application Developmnent, Assumptions, Change Management, Communication, Consequences, Courtesy, It Frameworks, It Management, Management, Project Management, Project Manager, Project Planning, Quality, release cycle, Trust, Wisdom
Blog posts 2006-12-20
Photos: Lego lands in Redmond
At Microsoft, Lego shows off the latest iteration of its programmable robot technology.
Tags: iteration, LEGO Co., Microsoft Corp., photograph, Redmond, robot
Image galleries 2006-07-25
Photos: Lego lands in Redmond
At Microsoft, Lego shows off the latest iteration of its programmable robot technology.
Tags: iteration, LEGO Co., Microsoft Corp., photograph, Redmond, robot
Image galleries 2006-07-25
Develop an agile approach to IT project management
This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. Learn about the three levels of planning encorporated by agile teams: release planning, iteration planning, and daily planning.Title: Agile Estimating and PlanningISBN: 0131479415Published: November 2005Author: Mike CohnChapter: Chapter 3: An Agile ApproachPublished...
Tags: team, iteration, Planning, Prentice Hall Inc., Agile Estimating, information technology, IT project management, Published
Download resources 2006-04-28
Missing deadline
I am team leader for 5 developers.I have to manage thier time and tasks. The problems that I face always missing tasks deadline. I beleive punshing is not the good way.I need a recommendation for best practice that help me to solve this issueBonus on on time delivery.My staff are...
Tags: team, Msh, deadline, it management
Discussion threads 2006-03-02
Creating advanced Excel 2003 formulas
This sample chapter, taken from Que Publishing's Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2003, shows you how to go beyond simple the equations you can coble together with Excel's humble equals sign and common operators, and operands. Learn how to create advanced Excel formulas that can help you dramatically improve...
Tags: Que Publishing, Microsoft Excel, dell, iteration, modeling, Microsoft Corp.
Download resources 2005-07-20

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Java tips for list iteration and bean comparisons
These tips originally appeared in the Builder.com Java e-newsletter.Iterating over lists and sorting Java Beans becomes much easier with the clever application of utility interfaces. First, discover how to use ListIterator to make examining list contents easier, and then find out how to build a BeanComparator using a Jakarta utility...
Tags: Henri Yandell, Java, ListIterator, ListIterator listItr
Technical articles 2003-04-11
Master the facilitation skills you need to lead an effective software development iteration retrospective
As a software developer, you are already an expert at what you know--software development--but you can still improve your team's methodology to allow you to continually learn from your software development experience throughout the life of a project. In this sample chapter from Agile Retrospectives: Making Good...
Tags: Software, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
Book chapters 2007-01-17
Iteration (generative art) 1.0 (Mobile)
A generative art application for the iPhone.Iteration uses an iterated function system to render soothing visual figures. Explore a mathematical landscape and save the best bits to your gallery. Simply click the refresh button for a unique variation.Images render and save at twice the resolution of the iPhone screen, making...
Tags: Screen, Mobile, Kathleen Tuite, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
Software downloads 2010-01-05
Perl tips: Understanding flow control
Perl's last, next, and redo statements allow you to control the flow of execution in a block. Here's a look at how to take advantage of these statements.By Charles GalpinPerl provides last, next, and redo statements to control the flow of execution within a block. The last statement exits the...
Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Guest Contributor, Perl
Technical articles 2002-05-03
Light processes keep development cycles short and sweet
Do shorter development cycles produce better code? That's the idea behind light development methodologies. In part two of a five-part series, Tom Mochal peeks under the hood of this quick-turnaround philosophy.Short projects are generally easier to manage and deliver than large projects: Fewer things can go wrong, fewer people are...
Tags: Tom Mochal, light methodology, development cycle, RAD
Technical articles 2002-05-07
Agile programming works for the solo developer
Agile programming, a.k.a., extreme programming XP, has a lot to offer the lone developer. Learn how agile programming's practices can bring order to solo development efforts.You may not realize it, but if you’re a software developer who works alone, you may already be using a lot of the concepts behind...
Tags: Development tools, Shelley Doll, programming, Agile
Technical articles 2002-08-05
Use VB6's TypeOf keyword to work with controls
While working this is very very inneficientHello Peter,This is a very nice trick which you can use in many ways. But there a catch here, its works but it's slow.2 reasons behind this. 1st - You're accessing the ctl in late-binding. It is always slower and moreover...
Tags: iterator, myrdhrin, Object sngStart, optimization, programming, Select Case, TypeName, TypeOf, TypeOf operator, vb
Discussion threads 2006-01-27
Consider DSDM as an XP alternative
The Dynamic Systems Development Method DSDM is a rapid development methodology for large-scale enterprise systems. DSDM is a convenient compromise between extreme programming and more traditional methodologies.The pressure to get ever more sophisticated and flexible products into users’ hands ever more quickly has made extreme programming XP the king of...
Tags: business solution, user involvement, Scott Robinson, DSDM, Microsoft Windows XP
Technical articles 2002-08-13
Handle bulk binding exceptions in PL/SQL
The downside to bulk binding in PL/SQL is that if any of the data values result in an invalid UPDATE, the entire set of iterations is rolled back. Bob Watkins explains how you can get around this issue. Bulk binding in PL/SQL is an important technique for efficient...
Tags: Oracle Corp., PL/SQL, SQL%BULK_EXCEPTIONS, Listing C, Databases, Bob Watkins, Programming languages, FORALL, SAVE EXCEPTIONS, Oracle Tips Newsletter, Downside, UPDATE, Listing D, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
Technical articles 2006-08-21
ASP/VB logic problem
I have a page that I have created with a gridview.I am taking the values from a column and creating a URL out of them. I have a button on the page that, when clicked, should open a new browser window with the URL I created in the page....
Tags: Microsoft development tools, sub, Microsoft ASP, Microsoft Visual Basic
Discussion threads 2008-12-03
What development methodology do you use?
Personally, I would love to say that I follow a rigorous development methodology, but I would be lying to you. I tend to "fly by the seat of my pants". It only works for me, because the overwhelming majority of my projects are small, one person projects that I can...
Tags: propeller, Agile, waterfall
Discussion threads 2009-01-15
Report Distribution
I have a report I have created in Access XP to show budgeted and actual revenue/expenses, broken down by VP, Administrator, and Department Head.The report currently shows all departments, and I can use the sendobject macro to email (via MS Outlook/Exchange)this entire report in snapshot format to specified users.What I...
Tags: e-mail, GSteve, programming
Q&A 2005-02-21
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