2006-05-30

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient astronomical computer built by the Greeks around 80 B.C. It was found on a shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900, and its exact function still eludes scholars to this day.

2006-05-22

Game Innovation Database.

Do you remember "Shadow of the Beast"? Lemmings? probably YES...If you are a fan of computer games.

Well, GIdb goal is to classify and record every innovation in the entire history of computer and videogames.

2006-05-17

Five Years of Design

Martin Fowler writes about the articles of the past five years of IEEE Software “Design” section, before passing the editing of the section to Rebecca Wirfs-Brock. This last article explains the basic Design Principles, the derived Best-Practices and their role in the software development process.

Thanks Martin.

2006-05-16

Development (Print) magazines are disappearing…

CMP Media has recently “merge” two of the most known software development magazines; Software Development and the C++ Users Journal (one of the last magazines dedicated to C/C+) into Dr. Dobbs magazine. Fortunately, I have an active subscription to Dr. Dobbs and I won’t lose any subscription fees.
Several years ago, CMP has also ceased the publication of the “legendary” BYTE magazine which makes me very angry (back in 1998) because a valuable source of information has been lost.

Obviously big publishing companies began to realize the importance of getting all the information directly from the provider using its blog, from a Usenet forum, or from a web site found be Google Search, and they make major efforts to create software development portals to replace the gap.

The difference is obvious.

2006-01-04

A Brief Look at C++0x

Bjarne offers a sneak peek at the next version of standard C++ ("C++0x") which should be complete by 2009.