http://www.dzone.com/links/queue/tag/reviews.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:54:36 GMT The DZone community 2008-07-05T02:54:36Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/queue/reviews/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/sony_kdl32s3000_lcd_tv.html As far as the design is concerned, the Sony Bravia looks great - it’s a nicely designed TV with simple but elegant appearance and it will definitely bring some fresh style to your living room.Minor things we think could be improved are as follows:- the stand could be a bit higher and with swivel for better and more accurate positioning- it wouldn’t hurt for the remote control to have a slightly broader coverage of remote signalOverall, this compact size TV is really a true quality product – exactly what you would expect from Sony. In terms of picture and production quality it’s an excellent HDTV and it even comes with a 3-year warranty. This product is the right choice for an LCD TV in this price range. reviews Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:11:04 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92677.html mijohnson79 2008-07-05T02:11:04Z As far as the design is concerned, the Sony Bravia looks great - it’s a nicely designed TV with simple but elegant appearance and it will definitely bring some fresh style to your living room.Minor things we think could be improved are as follows:- the stand could be a bit higher and with swivel for better and more accurate positioning- it wouldn’t hurt for the remote control to have a slightly broader coverage of remote signalOverall, this compact size TV is really a true quality product – exactly what you would expect from Sony. In terms of picture and production quality it’s an excellent HDTV and it even comes with a 3-year warranty. This product is the right choice for an LCD TV in this price range.]]> 92677 2008-07-05T02:11:04Z 1 0 1 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92677.jpg mijohnson79 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/310398.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/petabyte_scale_dataanalysis_and_the_scientific_me.html Google, according to Mr. Anderson, doesn't care about why link analysis suggests that page X should be a search result for keyword Y. And Venter has done work that basically pulls down huge quantities of genetic material from an unknown number of species, and then sequences it. He can discover new species from this data - even though he doesn't necessarily know what the species is, what it looks like, where it came from, etc. opinion reviews Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:57:15 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92634.html bloid 2008-07-04T19:57:15Z Google, according to Mr. Anderson, doesn't care about why link analysis suggests that page X should be a search result for keyword Y. And Venter has done work that basically pulls down huge quantities of genetic material from an unknown number of species, and then sequences it. He can discover new species from this data - even though he doesn't necessarily know what the species is, what it looks like, where it came from, etc.]]> 92634 2008-07-04T19:57:15Z 1 0 4 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92634.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/quality_matters_more.html For about 10 months I’ve had the world map displayed on the top left sidebar of this web site. It’s a really cool free widget created by amung.us. Whenever a visitor visits the web site, it posts a marker on the world map identifying the location of each visitor. Recently, the markers on the map have been resetting everyday. Since I like the cumulative record of visitors on the map, I contacted the company and asked why they made the change, opinion reviews usability Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:20:33 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92616.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T17:20:33Z For about 10 months I’ve had the world map displayed on the top left sidebar of this web site. It’s a really cool free widget created by amung.us. Whenever a visitor visits the web site, it posts a marker on the world map identifying the location of each visitor. Recently, the markers on the map have been resetting everyday. Since I like the cumulative record of visitors on the map, I contacted the company and asked why they made the change,]]> 92616 2008-07-04T17:20:33Z 2 0 7 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92616.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/agile_content_is_the_goal.html It’s suggested that the web has changed everything. Whatever requirements there were for delivering desktop applications, the requirements for delivering web applications has changed. For the web, the thinking goes; delivery of new features to customers is paramount to remain competitive. Maybe it’s true, but what’s the evidence? My own experience with popular web sites does not support this conclusion. methodology reviews Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:20:24 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92615.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T17:20:24Z It’s suggested that the web has changed everything. Whatever requirements there were for delivering desktop applications, the requirements for delivering web applications has changed. For the web, the thinking goes; delivery of new features to customers is paramount to remain competitive. Maybe it’s true, but what’s the evidence? My own experience with popular web sites does not support this conclusion.]]> 92615 2008-07-04T17:20:24Z 2 0 4 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92615.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/5_leadership_lessons_how_the_best_get_better_and.html Sports psychologist and executive coach Graham Jones believes that the real key to excellence in both sports and business is mental toughness. In the current Harvard Business Review he writes that the most successful people do five things to get better and stay that way. opinion reviews usability Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:14:12 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92613.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T17:14:12Z Sports psychologist and executive coach Graham Jones believes that the real key to excellence in both sports and business is mental toughness. In the current Harvard Business Review he writes that the most successful people do five things to get better and stay that way.]]> 92613 2008-07-04T17:14:12Z 1 0 7 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92613.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/test_code_is_first_class_code.html I believe that one of the worst mistake a developer can do when writing Unit Tests is to consider unit test “second class code”, in the end the test code does not goes into production (pay attention to the smell test logic in production) so it does not worth to spend too much time with Test Code. methodology reviews Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:08:33 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92610.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T17:08:33Z I believe that one of the worst mistake a developer can do when writing Unit Tests is to consider unit test “second class code”, in the end the test code does not goes into production (pay attention to the smell test logic in production) so it does not worth to spend too much time with Test Code.]]> 92610 2008-07-04T17:08:33Z 2 0 2 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92610.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/why_you_need_to_be_able_to_write_code_on_a_whiteb.html During a software engineering interview, you need to be able to write code on a whiteboard. During too many interviews, at multiple companies, I've seen candidate after candidate struggle to write simple code on the whiteboard. Many of these candidates are decent people, with CS degrees, Master degrees , "years or experience", "senior developer" titles, etc... Yet they cannot write 10 lines of correct code on a whiteboard. opinion reviews Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:02:15 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92606.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T17:02:15Z During a software engineering interview, you need to be able to write code on a whiteboard. During too many interviews, at multiple companies, I've seen candidate after candidate struggle to write simple code on the whiteboard. Many of these candidates are decent people, with CS degrees, Master degrees , "years or experience", "senior developer" titles, etc... Yet they cannot write 10 lines of correct code on a whiteboard.]]> 92606 2008-07-04T17:02:15Z 1 0 12 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92606.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/why_microsoft_will_win_yahoo.html In the end, Microsoft is almost surely going to end up owning Yahoo's search business. That's the only conclusion I can come up with, having spent months talking to Microsoft's senior leadership for a recent story on the company. And even what does seem like erratic behavior on the part of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer et al points toward that inevitable conclusion. microsoft news reviews Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:56:43 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92604.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T16:56:43Z In the end, Microsoft is almost surely going to end up owning Yahoo's search business. That's the only conclusion I can come up with, having spent months talking to Microsoft's senior leadership for a recent story on the company. And even what does seem like erratic behavior on the part of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer et al points toward that inevitable conclusion.]]> 92604 2008-07-04T16:56:43Z 2 0 3 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92604.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/internet_explorer_8_is_your_web_site_ready_for_ie8.html Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability will help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of "write once, run anywhere", freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers. This commitment also addresses several development and design pain points from previous Internet Explorer releases. reviews tools Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:23:56 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92449.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T02:23:56Z Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability will help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of "write once, run anywhere", freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers. This commitment also addresses several development and design pain points from previous Internet Explorer releases.]]> 92449 2008-07-04T02:23:56Z 2 0 11 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92449.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/dependency_injection_was_made_for_aspnet_mvc.html It's not that you can't use dependency injection in any .NET application, because you can. It's just that dependency injection fits so well in the ASP.NET MVC programming model. While building up a simple example for how my new application would be architecturally designed, I found using dependency injection with Web Forms as troublesome as trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. After some modifications and adjustments, I could get it to work, but it just didn't feel like a solid fit and certainly didn't make me any more productive. .net frameworks reviews Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:52:38 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92365.html mswatcher 2008-07-03T16:52:38Z It's not that you can't use dependency injection in any .NET application, because you can. It's just that dependency injection fits so well in the ASP.NET MVC programming model. While building up a simple example for how my new application would be architecturally designed, I found using dependency injection with Web Forms as troublesome as trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. After some modifications and adjustments, I could get it to work, but it just didn't feel like a solid fit and certainly didn't make me any more productive.]]> 92365 2008-07-03T16:52:38Z 2 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92365.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/5_useful_free_graphics_apps.html I work with so many different kinds of graphics that I’m always on the lookout for applications and utilities that can make working with them easier. In the world of freeware and open source software, you can find many good applications. Here are five examples. gui reviews usability Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:22:52 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92344.html mswatcher 2008-07-03T16:22:52Z I work with so many different kinds of graphics that I’m always on the lookout for applications and utilities that can make working with them easier. In the world of freeware and open source software, you can find many good applications. Here are five examples.]]> 92344 2008-07-03T16:22:52Z 2 0 60 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92344.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/pushing_data_to_the_browser_with_comet.html AJAX has become so popular because it allows a browser to initiate a request to the server to receive or push data. Pushing data from the server to a client at an undetermined interval has been a problem that AJAX has never been able to deal with well. Simple examples of applications that AJAX does not handle well due to the need for server push are chat applications, live temperature updates, tailing log files, and calling long running queries. Comet can solve this problem. Comet is a web application architecture that allows a web server to send data to a browser without any need for the browser to request the data. reviews usability web design Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:12:09 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92267.html mswatcher 2008-07-03T10:12:09Z AJAX has become so popular because it allows a browser to initiate a request to the server to receive or push data. Pushing data from the server to a client at an undetermined interval has been a problem that AJAX has never been able to deal with well. Simple examples of applications that AJAX does not handle well due to the need for server push are chat applications, live temperature updates, tailing log files, and calling long running queries. Comet can solve this problem. Comet is a web application architecture that allows a web server to send data to a browser without any need for the browser to request the data.]]> 92267 2008-07-03T10:12:09Z 3 0 14 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92267.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif