So we’ve been out a little while, huh? Whelp, the most unexpected things tend to happen at the most inopportune times. However, we’re back! As rumors flourish about the web that we gave up or that the website was cracked, we still press-on. So what happened? Continue reading ‘And From the Shadows of Confusion’
Archive for the 'q&a' Category
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Oct
POLL: 2 cents on PDAs?
What I would like to pull off with this post is to get some opinions for the best PDAs on the market right now. Not just the uber powerful with linux under the hood but also the super user friendly 'enduser' PDAs. Continue reading ‘POLL: 2 cents on PDAs?’
Food for thought, something I would like to get feedback on, enviromental detachment from prosecuted activity. What do I mean by this? With the advent of technologies that we have today, it is becoming increasingly more standard/popular to telecommute taskings than to jointly, in communion, attack a project as a sole group of integrated professionals. Where does this lead us? Is everyone to become a 'freelance'… anything? Can a whole-team concept be effectively transmitted and sustained across wires, electrical circuits, fiber optics, microwaves and light energy for any extended period of time? Does this shift us into the next step in evolution of the wired/connected generation? Do the consequences gain as dramatic an impact when business decisions are corrupted, poorly executed or erroneous? Continue reading ‘Environmental detachment, what is it gaining us?’
As most professional developers are fully aware, when you start out building that exciting application for Joe Bloggs Inc, your intentions are always so honourable. You have your UML Diagrams, you have all your classes and libraries planned out and then you start writing. As you churn out your pre-defiened pattern that you lovingly spent hours drafting the client calls you "oh can we change this, and add in that?". The looming prospect of a 'hack' is on the way. Continue reading ‘A hack a day - Is it worth it?’
Native compiled applications are what we all use every day, that word processor, this web browser. But just what is the difference between all the other systems used that are interpreted (this web blog, all those networking myspace-esque sites) even that poker game on your cellphone. What are the benefits of these different types of applciation structure? Continue reading ‘Native or interpreted, which will survive?’
