Month: August 2004

BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech “When Blobjects Rule the Earth” Bruce Streling does this kind of near furture journalism better than anyone else out there.

You Are Number 6 links to this (his) article Agile Bug Finding with Risk Targeted Testing in Java, which lays out some best pratices in testing: Run the tests every time you change something. If you use Ant then have Continue reading Agile Pigs and Unit Testing Tips→

(with apologies to Dr. Seuss) from Daily Yomiuri On-Line, via GadgetMadness, word about a Fish bar code system under development to enable consumers to receive detailed information (with thier cellphone) about fish at retail stores, including where and when the Continue reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, BarCode Fish…→

From The Register, Freescale – Motorola’s soon-to-be-spun-off chip division – and AMD are set to detail their respective dual-core processor designs this autumn. Let the Mult-Core, uber-processor wars begin.

David Ticoll writes about how VoIP is revolutionizing the business phone in the Globe and Mail (aug 19th 2004), and presents 3 case studies, from basics to power phoners, that show how your business might use VoIP. reduced costs, more Continue reading The Case for VoIP→

As a followup on the upcoming Multi core uber-chip’s, The Inquirer comments on the dueling plans in the X86 world, how ADM planed ahead with it’s K8 core 2 years ago, and Intel’s late response with it Paxville desgin being Continue reading The Dual Core Wars: AMD vs Intel→