Archive for October, 2007
You don’t know XBox Live
Regardless of your thoughts on the various merits of each of the games consoles jostling for the top spot, the XBox 360 has the upper edge for me every time. Yes, the Nintendo Wii is amazingly addictive, but the Wiimote is often jittery and lacks accuracy at times (why bother with skill when you can [...]
Having a Ballmer
“I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of Windows” Ballmer: All open source dev should happen on Windows | The Register Obviously all that flapping up and down screaming “Developers, developers, developers, developers” (see after the break) has starved Steve Ballmer of critical oxygen supply to his brain of late. [...]
Test Driven Documentation
Esendex fully embraces the idea of test-driven development (TDD), something I was introduced to during my time at Fujitsu-Siemens Computers. Microsoft have just released a new MSDN site called the Tester Center Home. Whilst I’m sure its got some useful information on it, the matter-of-fact MSDN style doesn’t invite me to delve into it to [...]
Joost a minute
With the news today that the Skype founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have quit Skype as eBay decide they’ve paid too much for the company, the future of the online telephony service is feeling a bit more shaky. Skype for all it has done for introducing IP based telephony to the masses is another [...]
