Interesting write up by William Edwards The agile sales movement is a FastTrack with the fatal flaw that it is not about developer calibre. It’s about grinding programmers and trying to average them out. No-one should be surprised when you get mediocre, predictably late projects. I haven’t done Agile enough to know if it’s a [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
XNA 4 RPG Starter Kit Demo
Demo by Kevin Gadd This demo is the XNA 4 RPG Starter Kit, compiled from C# to JavaScript using JSIL, my open-source C# to JavaScript compiler. It should run in any browser that supports HTML5 and a modern version of JavaScript, no plugins required. This uses Gadd’s compiler JSIL JSIL is a compiler that transforms [...]
iOS 5 Face Detection with Core Image
iOS 5 Face Detection with Core Image by Bob McCune One particularly cool new feature available in Core Image, on both iOS 5 and Lion, is its ability to detect faces in an image. It really boils down to two classes: CIDetector and CIFaceFeature. CIDetector is responsible for performing the analysis of an image and [...]
JavaScript Design Patterns: Mediator
JavaScript Design Patterns: Mediator The Mediator is a behavioral design pattern in which objects, instead of communicating directly with each other, communicate only through a central message passing object (the Mediator). The Mediator pattern facilitates both loose couple and high cohesion. Like most things; there are always pros and cons to your design decision. Also, [...]
Android Threads, Handlers and AsyncTask – Tutorial
I was looking for AsyncTask examples and came across this tutorial by Lars Vogel. This tutorial describes the usage of Threads, Handlers and AsyncTask in your application. It also covers how to handle the application lifecycle together with threads. It also describes Traceview to trace an application for performance problems. It is based on Eclipse [...]
Introduction to JavaScript Source Maps
Another in depth write up by Ryan Seddon, aka The CSS Ninja. Have you ever found yourself wishing you could keep your client-side code readable and more importantly debuggable even after you’ve combined and minified it, without impacting performance? Yep.
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