Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2006
Last week I was listening to Janice Fraser of Adaptive Path sharing her successes and failures as an entrepreneur with Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership program. In the pod cast she highly recommend a book called: The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki. She recommended the book so much that I decided to [...]
Posted in General on Feb 24th, 2006
The European Union has proposed plans for a new European Institute of Technology. It is going to be based across multiple sites in Europe and the hope is to create more commercial projects from R&D work. It is hoped that this new Institute will provide a European rival to MIT.
Posted in General on Feb 23rd, 2006
Ever since I studied a module in Concurrent programming in my Masters I have been fascinated by thread programming. Growing up many moons ago as a junior programmer I was always lead to believe that threads are a bad thing and can lead to some very serious problems.
This can be true if you are [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2006
I went along to the IIA -Irishdev.com – DJMG web 2.0 event in the Morgan hotel last night.
It was very interesting to see this Irish Developer movement. There was a real sense of new beginnings. I got talking to Fergal Breen, of Irishdev after the talk. We both agreed that Web 1.0 was full of [...]
Posted in General on Feb 21st, 2006
I read an interesting article on developer works. In recent times there has been a major shift towards code quality.
In the article James Conallen discusses how test coverage tools are an important part of a developers armory but high coverage percentages do not always guarantee the quality of the unit test.