Sucess rates in FP7 project
A nice, suggested reading, expecially now with the next deadline approaching
http://ec.europa.eu/research/reports/2008/pdf/fp7-1st-year-subscription-performance.pdf
N Examples of Why Time Estimates are Always Wrong (Software Engineering Tips)
A nice post found by Jordi
N Examples of Why Time Estimates are Always Wrong (Software Engineering Tips).
Thin clients for remote gaming?
On the train again, and again 3G connection to feed my Web addiction ( all together, all hail to 3G... come on!!)
Anyway, I found the following post on Ars Technica:
AMD's next-gen GPU powers Crysis on an iPhone
Besides all the considerations about the power of nowadays' GPU, what hit me was the following passage:
...the game (Crysis) is rendered like normal on the server machine, where frames from it are grabbed by the OTOY server-side software. Next, these frames are compressed and sent out over the network to the client, which decompresses them using a very small chunk of code (about 780K, hence the iPhone demo) and displays them in a window. User input is sent back to the server over UDP because it's tolerant of packet loss, so you don't add to latency by resending dropped packets...
Nice Javascript Frameworks
I'm working quite a lot in Javascript lately, and I spent quite some time using the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). That is a nice piece of client-side software, and I think I'll publish a couple of tutorials sooner or later.
While playing around, I found out two really awesome frameworks built (by Eric Abouaf) on top of YUI:
- InputEx: a framework to build fields and forms programmatically
- WireIt: a Web wirable interfaces dataflow application, visual programming languages, graphical modeling, graph editors, etc. etc.
They look promising, and I think I'm going to spend some times on those... I'll let you know
The Failure of the GPL
Un interessante articolo di David Chisnall riguardo la GPL e il suo (in)successo nell'industria del software. Oltre che sfatare il falso mito di "Google paladino di Linux", l'articolo riporta questo interessante passaggio:
With web services and web applications becoming increasingly common, you don't even need to try very hard. You can incorporate as much GPL'd code as you want into your proprietary web app or service, and no one can get at the code because you never distribute the binary—you just let people use it.
Mi domando quale sia la posizione della FSF e dei "GPListi" al riguardo...
via InformIT: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1390172