Why Facebook App Development is Seriously Flawed 8 months ago
See our new post about facebook app development on the Betista blog.
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I bet you will use this app… 9 months ago
…we launched Betista - our free social betting app! There are still some technical and usability issues to sort out but we’re working on it. Feedback is much appreciated! The project was a massive learning experience since we used some of the latest and greatest technologies (cloud, …
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Code Like You Mean It… last year
Very good presentation by Dan North about »Deliberate Discovery: Code Like You Mean It«. »Ignorance is multivariate« and »We’re ignorant about our ignorance« – yes, based on past project experience, I guess I can confirm that! ;) He also mentions an interesting book called »A mind of …
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JavaScript Development vs. Flex Development (and why … last year
Blog post titles with »vs« in it are often quite controversial. Most of the time, eliminating bias in those posts is neither desired nor possible anyway. Same here. However, having worked on real-world projects both using Ruby on Rails/HTML/JavaScript and Flex/AS3, I think that I’m able to …
keywords as3, bias, blog, different ways, flash platform, flex, html javascript, real world, ria, ruby on rails, software development, web development, world projects
Outstanding Book on Software Development last year
The average software developer reads less than one job-related book per year. This may be true or may not be true. I have no proof for this claim, I just heard or read it »somewhere«. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It does not have an answer either but sheds lights on [...]
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Ruby Development on Windows last year
Several months ago, I set a Ruby development environment up on Windows but quickly realised that people were right saying that it doesn’t work well: I had lots of crashes, installation of some gems was tricky and the Ruby version didn’t play well with the Rails version at that time. …
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How to be a Programmer last year
»To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one’s coworkers and customers.« When a book about programming starts with this software development truth, it’s a good sign that it is worth …
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Asynchronous Callback Functions in FlexUnit last year
FlexUnit provides support for asynchronous testing with the Async class. While this class works well for event driven tests, it doesn’t support callback functions like you might want it to. A typical event driven asynchronous test looks like this: [Test(async, description="Async …
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Excellent Book on Software Development 2 years ago
Just want to quickly point out an excellent reading for all software developers, architects, team leads or project managers: »Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point« by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Although there is a chapter about technical excellence that covers architecture, …
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Faster parallel MXMLC compilation using Ant 2 years ago
Whenever you have a Flex project consisting of several modules, you can take advantage of compiling those modules in parallel – provided that they don’t depend on each other – using Ant and the Ant-Contrib tasks. In a project with five modules, I’ve seen a speed increase of about 30% …
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