An August 11, 2005 posting on Slashdot led me to a question and long thread on the "ask Slashdot" forum. A teacher at Hong Kong International School asked the following question: "Does anyone out there have suggestions as to what would be a better language to start students with? Ideally one that might be more ‘enticing’ as well?" […]
A recent article on BusinessWeek Online, talks about development trends in the software industry that could also be used in the video game industry. One of the things mentioned in the opening of the article is the “mature development processes” that companies uses including CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration).
The six lessons learned are:
Switch from Wishful […]
I just could pass up this new item (probably the most covered techie item this past week). The "Jerk-O-Meter" cell or VOIP (voice over IP) phone software program being developed by MIT researchers. The software analyzes the speaking patterns of the cell phone user and rates the level of involvement in the conversation. Using speech […]
Being a developer for more than 36 years and an employee of Borland for 20 years, I’ve ample time to think about and experience first hand the challenge, opportunity, and fun of the world of software development. In recent presentations I have talked about the evolution of software development, the changes that have taken place […]
The headling reads, "28 year old man dies after 49 hours of computer games". He was playing StarCraft. I am a huge fan of the Blizzard games, especially Starcraft. In my past i’ve stayed up programming and debugging for 48 hours before but that was much earlier in my career (now if needed I can […]