Harmlose Partyzone Von Franziska K. Müller Hunderttausende Jugendliche ziehen jedes Wochenende durch die Klubs und «machen Party». Gewalt? Drogen? Zügelloser Rausch? Die Realität ist banaler.
Norwegen ist laut Uno-Statistik das Land mit der weltweit besten Lebensqualität. Deutsche Gaststudenten schwärmen von Skiwanderungen durch die Wildnis und Cafés in der Hauptstadt Oslo. Der Haken: Norwegen ist teuer - sehr teuer. Aber auch "veldig hygge
Was haben Scientology, Wal-Mart, al-Dschasira und die CIA gemeinsam? Sie alle schreiben heimlich das globale Internet-Lexikon Wikipedia um. Doch mit dem Wiki-Scanner kommt die Community den Maulwürfen jetzt mühelos auf die Schliche.
I just saw this page comparing the performance of several languages on a simple Mandelbrot set generator. His numbers show Java being over twice as slow as C, but then I noticed that he's using an older version of java and only running the test once, whic
a small consultancy that has specialized in object-oriented programming. We are not now taking on new clients as our principals are busy doing other things (See AboutUs.org, Beaverton School Board). We have closed our office on SW 40th Avenue. We are happ
In what I hope will be the first of several articles about Guice, a new lightweight dependency injection container from Bob Lee and Kevin Bourillion from Google, this article examines the simplest and most obvious use case for the Guice container, for mocking or faking objects in unit tests. In future articles I will examine other, more ambitious areas where it can be used, including dependency elimination in large code bases.
I have been thinking much about Metaprogramming lately. I have come to the conclusion that I would like to see more examples and explanations of these techniques. For good or bad, metaprogramming has entered the Ruby community as the standard way of accom
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was one of the most influential members of computing science's founding generation. Among the domains in which his scientific contributions are fundamental are
What is a framework? So that we’re all on the same page, let’s agree—at least for the duration of this article—on this definition of “framework”: a set of tools, libraries, conventions, and best practices that attempt to abstract routine task
Interfaces and Abstract Classes are language constructs that appear over and over in many design patterns and even just in good design techniques. It is common for a single interface or abstract class to have many different descendants or implementations. A good example of this scenario is the Strategy Pattern which relies heavily on many implementations of the same interface.
It is desirable to have one test suite that tests functional compliance with the interface that could be applied to each of the implementing classes.
THESE days, Google seems to be doing everything, everywhere. It takes pictures of your house from outer space, copies rare Sanskrit books in India, charms its way onto Madison Avenue, picks fights with Hollywood and tries to undercut Microsoft’s softwar
We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, but what? Barbara Ehrenreich unpicks the causes of our unhappiness
Levine said Soloway was a good target because he operates in the United States and has taken few steps to cover his tracks. Soloway, 27, was once on a top 10 list of spammers kept by The Spamhaus Project, an international anti-spam organization. Others h
Feedback is vital for the practice of Continuous Integration (CI) -- in fact, it's the life blood of a CI system. Rapid feedback enables speedy responses to build events that require attention. Without feedback mediums like e-mail or RSS, builds in a broken state have the tendency to stay broken, which defeats the purpose of CI in the first place! In this installment of Automation for the people, automation expert Paul Duvall examines various feedback mechanisms that you can incorporate into CI systems.
The Guardian, Wednesday, 16th 2007
Does talk of Prince William joining Facebook, or Lily Allen blogging on MySpace, leave you baffled? Fear not! Here's our late adopter's guide to the social networking revolution