The eBay Developers Challenge has just been announced, and Grand Prize booty includes travel and admission to the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. So fire up those little gray cells and remix, mash-up, or bake from scratch some code that will wow the judges. For contest details, including the fine print, visit the contest homepage.
Prefactoring: General Development Issues -- Developers often stop in the middle of a project's build stage to rethink and recode the software design, a process known as refactoring. "Prefactoring" advocates considering the best possible design patterns before you even begin your project. Chapter 3 of Prefactoring looks at some general development issues related to all forms of software development: interface contracts, communicating with code, simplicity, dealing with errors, and the spreadsheet conundrum. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a free trial subscription.
How to Decide What Bugs to Fix When, Part 1
-- There are two challenges to making smart bug decisions:
first, understanding how to make good bug-fix decisions; and second,
creating and following rules that make it easy to stick to those
decisions when the pressure is high. In this first installment of a
two-part essay, Scott Berkun provides the core ideas you need to make
your own bug-fixing rules. Scott is the author of The Art of Project Management.
Scott Berkun on Dr. Dobb's
Great Writers NetSeminar Series -- Scott Berkun,
author of the newly released The Art of Project Management is
the first presenter in the new Great Writers NetSeminar Series
sponsored by Dr. Dobb's Journal and C/C++ User's Journal.
Scott, a long-time veteran, will offer invaluable perspectives and
techniques for project management on August 31 at 11:00 a.m. PT. Register
today (free) to reserve your place.
