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Archive for February, 2009

Mozilla Labs Bespin

A couple weeks ago, Magnun and I were trying to implement a new feature for CairoPlot 2.0, which will be called Series. At the time, we decided to create a draft of what we were doing before actually coding and versioning it.
Both of us were stunned to find that an online colaborative programming ide didn’t [...]

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Code Complete 2

Yeah, I finally gave up and decided to follow StackOverFlow users and Jeff Atwood advices and started to read Code Complete 2.
From the very first chapter, I’m starting to get why so much people love this book:
Software construction is the central activity in software development; construction is the only activity that’s guaranteed to happen on [...]

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What happens when a software enterpreneur and an offshore oil extractor come together?
Roger Green (the software enterpreneur) and David Cook (the offshore oil extractor) came together and decided to board the 600 best software engineers around the world to live on a boat 3 miles away from the US pacific coast. Right outside imigration range.
These [...]

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Stack Overflow

One day, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky decided to help the programming community. Along the way, other guys joined them (Jarrod Dixon, Geoff Dalgas, Jeremy Kratz and Brent Ozar) and they came with the absolutely fantabulous Stack Overflow.
From their About page
Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, [...]

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