2007 Design Programming Software 
O'Reilly
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. It’s not just memorizing the syntactic details of some programming language, or the many functions in some API, but understanding and managing the complexity of the problem you’re trying to solve. Controlling complexity is.” That brings me to my main point.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” The co-founder of CloudFour , Jason has a deep background in website and application development and has worked on projects including the Obama ’08 iOS app and Walmart’s responsive design.
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O'Reilly Software
MARCH 7, 2018
Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.
Alex Russell
APRIL 29, 2021
Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. Web Serial.
The Agile Manager
OCTOBER 31, 2018
To wit: the ribbon interface that replaced the command menus in Microsoft Office 2007 was not met with enthusiasm. Inventing battery technologies and designing cars that are sufficiently different from the cars anybody else has made captures the imagination of financier and customer alike. For example, Tesla. But that isn't enough.
Sutter's Mill
SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
From the article: Let’s say that your program has a shared log file object. Before reading on, please think about the question and pencil in some pseudocode to vet your design. Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007).
Sutter's Mill
JULY 12, 2010
From the article: … Active objects dramatically improve our ability to reason about our thread’s code and operation by giving us higher-level abstractions and idioms that raise the semantic level of our program and let us express our intent more directly. As with all good patterns, we also get better vocabulary to talk about our design.
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