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09 Mar 08

Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit

Overview of IE 8 features for developers.

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IE8 developer toolkit

  • Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover WebSlices within a webpage and add them
    to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row below the Address bar for easy access to
    links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes to the webpage, detects changes in the
    WebSlice, and notifies the user of updates. Users can preview these updates
    directly from the Favorites bar and click-through to the website to get more
    information.
14 Nov 07

Assembla Blog | The number one developer qualification: Can build from scratch

If I ask a candidate "have you ever designed and built a piece of software by yourself", and they respond enthusiastically with a description of the project, then it is very likely they will succeed in a trial. If not, then there is some probability that they lack the ability to design software. However, it is almost certain that they lack the creative joy that comes from laying down whatever kind of code you want to lay down, and the rush that comes from conjuring something out of formless bits.

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developer hr

  • Sometimes I see resumes (often from India) that show a developer has worked for years on a series of team projects that involve five or ten team members.  In this case, you often have to go back to some college project to dig up the evidence.  If you find an individual, from scratch project that the candidate is excited about, no matter how old, that is a good sign.  If not, the probability is very small that the candidate will succeed in a distributed team trial. 
  • I would not argue with you on the achievements described in resumes of potential candidates. However, it is certainly a fact that candidates who are excited about giving a bunch of floating bits some structure have a very big drawvack.
11 Oct 06

Hacknot - Developers are from Mars, Programmers are from Venus

  • The term "programmer" has historically referred to a menial, manual input task conducted by an unskilled worker. Predecessors of the computer, such as the Hollerith machine, would be fed encoded instructions by operators called "programmers". Early electro-mechanical, valve and relay-based computers were huge and expensive machines, operated within an institutional environment whose hierarchical division of labor involved, at the lowest level, a "button pusher" whose task was to laboriously program the device according to instructions developed by those higher up the technical ladder. So the programmer role is traditionally concerned only with the input of data in machine-compatible form, and not with the relevance or adequacy of those instructions when executed.
  • Developers like to code as well, but they see it as being only a part of their job function. They focus more on delivering value than delivering program text, and know that they can't create value without having an awareness of the business context into which they will deploy their application, and the organizational factors that impact upon its success once delivered.
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