estimates, uncertainty

aint that the truth...

Coding Horror: The Mysterious Cone of Uncertainty

early project estimates will always be wildly inaccurate

vindubytte med stil

frå Inge:

Denne var ganske så stilig, og funker godt i praksis med de maskinenen vi bruker på utvikling. Er en erstatning for windows Alt+Tab, og gir en grafisk oversikt over tilgjengelige vinduer. Har prøvd lignende løsninger før, og de var altfor trege, denne er såpass kjapp at den kan brukes.

java og skriptspråk

interessante tankar...
gjeld vel for ting som php, pearl, ruby også

The Snowtide Blog » Blog Archive » Working Together: Python/Java & Open Source/Commercial

In general, Java and Python don’t really mix. Their architectures, best-practices, object models, and philsophies are pretty divergent in a lot of ways. Because of this, you don’t often find them cohabiting peacefully.

However, there are significant advantages to be had by bringing these two environments together. Python is a really elegant language, and is very well-suited to whole classes of software development that are much more painful to tackle in Java. Java has its advantages as well: a very mature standard library, a huge array of third-party library support, fantastic development environments, and the backing of big players in IT. As always, there’s a right tool for each job, and sometimes Java works best, and sometimes Python works best, but a combination would truly be more than the sum of its parts.