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Are there vendors who provide support for tool qualification for frama-c? By that I mean documentation support that can be provided as part of the certification process, so when yo…

Talk to your line manager. It is quite possible that there are some skills around building long-term maintainable codebases that you haven't learnt yet. Different companies have va…

My wife taught the kids at primary school how to use PowerPoint. After they were given a camera to take some pictures around the school, some of them randomly figured out they coul…

How about using Scrum stories? Each story would be a 1-2 page Word doc, with a long form description of the behaviour required and mockups of the UI.

This is a really nice programming environment. It reminds me of playing with forth for the instant feedback and interactive working.

I think that the UK.gov were forced by the IOC to promise that they would get the law passed before they could submit a O *c bid. Basically they waited until the last minute then i…

The article misses the point of Khan Academy. The point is that the world only ever has to find _one good example_ of how to teach something. If someone comes up with a theory on a…

Have you looked at SQL Azure? Microsoft have really good BI tools. I think 200GB of SQL Azure will cost a couple of hundred bucks a month.

I can't see how the online business can afford to allow Do Not Track. Put the other way: you can only have gmail if you agree hand over your personal information to Google.

In the UK the Royal Mail works similarly: http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services

That would be my guess too, especially as two crossed yagis are a well known way to receive circular polarized signals: http://www.qsl.net/dk7zb/Cross-Yagi/crossyagi.htm

One thing to note is that dedicated server suppliers will foot the capital cost of servers for you, so there is no need to find the cash for the server up front. 100tb.com do this …

I would see this as a move towards 'enterprise' (yes I know people here hate that word), but look at the url... $9/app/month means that it doesn't really make sense for tiny hobby …

That is pretty pricey. 1GB of RAM from crucial is $10. 1 GB of Memcache from AWS, (assuming 3 year amortization) $1900. Obviously there is overhead, but if you have machines alread…

Using jquery will avoid this issue, because it automatically removes event handlers when a node is taken out of the DOM tree.

I used to work in the FPGA industry, and we had quite a few people looking at trying to do hardware acceleration of stuff currently done on CPUs. In short, it is hard. There are pl…

Why is this interesting?

'Sharding' and 'a rest interface' are not really business requirements. Sharding is only a solution to handling certain types of high load, and REST is but one solution for IPC.

"We store a lot of data... 2TB" Given that a pair of 2TB drives is less than $250 on ebuyer right now, 2TB of data is not 'big data'. You could comfortably stuff that in any decent…

This appears to be a bike designed by someone who has never ridden a bike, and who never got a handful of bits of wood and mocked the thing up. For example: 1) The handle bars have…

I've twice tried (unsuccessfully) to use it for small projects. Last week I had to re-write an app to port it off the platform because it suddenly stopped being served correctly wh…

Here is an alternative for the Duct Tape Programmer: http://www.brightyellowcow.com/blog/A-thin-13A-Plug.html

Please, this is ridiculous. Find me a professional programmer who doesn't consider garbage collection and threads to be a useful thing.