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Intel Ct leaps ahead in multi-threaded development
At Intel research day last week, one of the most impressive things I've seen to date in the parallel programming arena leapt out on center stage.  I blogged earlier this month about "The death of single-threaded development" due to the systemic shift microprocessor progression.  The OpenMP code took 172 lines...
Tags: Desktop, Development, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Intel
Blog posts 2007-06-25
The death of single threaded development
Applications use to get free performance boosts whenever the clock speed on the CPU and memory bus went up at an exponential rate.  For two decades, applications just magically doubled in speed every two years without any requirement to redesign the code but the era the "free lunch" performance boosts...
Tags: Servers, Intel, Hardware, Development, Desktop, AMD
Blog posts 2007-06-06
Is the end nigh for Borland?
You know the whole rubber-necking thing, where people slow down near an accident so they can take a moment to look at the carnage? I kinda feel like Im rubber-necking whenever I read about the slow decline of Borland, as in this little piece on Valleywag earlier today. ...
Tags: Software Development, Programming, Development, Application Development
Blog posts 2007-05-03
Is Ray Ozzie turning Microsoft into an online software company?
Ray Ozzie has clearly become the heir apparent to Bill Gates on software leadership at Microsoft. In the Gates mold, Ozzie is now the former programmer who goes to conferences and evangelizes Microsofts vision of the future to developers. Thats what hes been doing this week at Mix07, the edgy...
Tags: Windows Mobile, Windows, web-based applications, Web Development, Ray Ozzie, Programming, Mix07, Microsoft, Development
Blog posts 2007-05-01
Scalability vs. performance
Building a scalable application? So am I. One of the mental conflicts that I keep having is that all of the layers that we add to an application particularly a Web application to add scalability… well, they hurt the performance of the application!An increasing common pattern is to have the...
Tags: Software Development, Software Design, Software Architecture, Programming, N-Tier, Multitiered, Development, Code, Architecture
Blog posts 2007-04-11
Thread safety and responsibility
Today I am back onto one of my favorite topics, as of late: multithreading and data integrity. I know, some of you are probably sick of this one, but today I thought about it from a totally different angle: responsibility and ethics. No, not whether or not using a thread...
Tags: Threads, Software Development, Software Design, Programming, Multithreading, Development, Data Integrity, Code Writing, Code, Application Development
Blog posts 2007-03-28
Web apps and record locking
Last week, I wrote a bit about multithreading. One of the biggest issues with multithreading is maintaining data integrity. There are a lot of pitfalls with it. Today, I was looking at the issue of data integrity from another angle: client/server applications. The fact is, if you are working on...
Tags: Servers, Scripting languages, Web, lock, data integrity, client-server, client/server application, server
Blog posts 2007-03-20
My Ideal Software Project
I have been kicking around some of my experiences with software projects that just did not fly lately. Sure, they may have worked (eventually, maybe) at a technical level, but they seemed to not go anywhere in reality. I have been thinking about why they failed, or were not as...
Tags: Application Development, Code Writing, Competitive Advantage, Development, Market Share, Programming, Project Management, Software, Software Design, Software Development, System Design, Web Development
Blog posts 2007-02-28
My Language Choice Conundrum Deepens
At the suggestion of a zillion people and Web sites, I have finally started reading Code Complete by Steve McConnell. The book is really good, and touches on so many of the topics that I have been writing about lately and that people have been talking about in the forums....
Tags: Application Development, Architect, Bad Programming, Code, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Development Process, Microsoft Visual Basic, Object Oriented, Perl, programmer, Programming, Software, Software Design, Software Development
Blog posts 2007-02-19
Secure, Open, Convenient - Pick Two, and Forget the Other
I have been using Windows Vista for about a week now. One thing that consistently hits me is the UAC system. Even though I am running as an admin, I keep getting asked to verify operations, often by multiple security systems for the same operation. Last night I posted a...
Tags: Application Development, Best Practice, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Development Process, Programming, security, Software Design, Software Development
Blog posts 2006-12-07
Spiceworks: Rapid Ruby, Customer Focus, and Starting a Company
In November 2006, I reviewed version 1.0 of Spiceworks IT Desktop, and I was rather impressed with the product and the company on many levels. Today I had the opportunity to talk with Scott Abel CEO and Francis Sullivan CTO of Spiceworks. Spiceworks is a small startup located in Austin,...
Tags: Application Development, Code, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Development Process, Interview, Programming, Rapid Ruby, Ruby, Software Design, Software Development, Spiceworks
Blog posts 2006-12-04
Commanding the Death Star
In my previous post, I talked about the importance of good monitors to a developer. Today, I will show you a bit more about the setup that is slowly taking root in my home office, where all of my TechRepublic magic (blogs, articles, downloads, etc.) occurs!Is this picture, we have...
Tags: Application Development, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Hardware, keyboard, Monitor, Programming, Software Design
Blog posts 2006-11-16
The Deterioration of American Engineering
The Deterioration of American Engineering My Objectives in writing this, is not to whine and complain, but rather to complain with a PURPOSE.So that Engineers may read this and Wake the fk up! And provide the people with more Quality and less BS.
Tags: customer service, engineering, design, testing, development, programming, networking, hardware, project management, linux, it management, software, windows, security, feedback, Tune-up, Fuel Pump, Fuel Filter, the_webninja@..., Toyota Motor Corp.
Discussion threads 2006-11-15
My Language Choice Conundrum
A recent TechRepublic article has sparked a fairly fierce discussion about the appropriateness of particular languages to particular tasks. What I find interesting about this is the attitude of, "well, if this is the language that I know, why shouldn't I use it?" I was raised and taught to use...
Tags: .net, Application Development, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Java, Programming, Software Development, TechRepublic Article, Vb.net, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2005
Blog posts 2006-11-09
Short Order Programmers
In the fifteen or so years that I have been programming, I only can distinctly remember one instance where I directly worked as a "team." I was in 10th grade, and we were working in pairs on COBOL code running on an NCR mainframe system. Since then, I have had...
Tags: Career, Career Advancement, Code, Developers, Development, Development Process, programmer, Programming, Project Management, Software Design, Software Development
Blog posts 2006-11-02
Make your text stand out by adding a halo with this VB.NET code
Check out the cool little app that goes with this technique and let us know what you think about it. Do any likely modifications jump out at you?HeadacheSorry, but that just makes the text look blurry to me. Harder to read, though admittedly it's more obvious that there is...
Tags: development, font, halo, JodyGilbert, justin james, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, programming, text, tradeoff, vb.net
Discussion threads 2006-09-21
Web Software development
Hi , I am looking for examples of WBS , process description and other documents for web software development project. Can somebody help me with this ? Maybe there are some methodologies like PMBOK dedicated for software development ?
Tags: Software development, Development tools
Discussion threads 2006-06-15
Divide functionality into manageable pieces with .NET 2.0's partial classes
This piece is a partial article......with a missing piece.I eagerly read this article expecting to find an example of an author-defined class separated into partial class files. Without such an example, this article is almost devoid of new information not already supplied by at the Microsoft launch event.Please add...
Tags: partial class, windows, .net, development, aikimark@..., programming, Microsoft .NET
Discussion threads 2006-06-14
Books on creating a blog in ASP.NET?
Hello all,My company is tossing around the idea of adding a blog-like service to the services we already offer our clients. As I am the web designer/developer, I am getting a head start researching information on this in the event they decide to go through (and that way I...
Tags: DBF, blog, SQL, SQL Express, blogs, development, asp.net, ObiWayneKenobi, programming, Books, Microsoft ASP.NET
Discussion threads 2006-06-09
Rate Your Programming Languages
I'm providing a set of characteristics that programming languages can have in varying degrees. I want you to rate every language you know well enough to give an informed opinion, on a scale of 1 to 10 (no zero or eleven scores, please), for each characteristic. When I've...
Tags: apotheon, programming, development, languages, programming language
Discussion threads 2006-05-12


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