Tinyurl.com had on its own 11 characters, bit.ly 6 characters( only half!!!) and now j.mp –only 4 characters wasted. Twitter allows only 140 characters - Need to save two characters in a tweet? You either have to use the SMS language - rework your wording by changing “people†to “ppl†or “for†to “4†for example, or, if you want to include a link, you can use a shorter URL.The natural evolution of shortening websites followed the shrinking idea: Starting with tinyurl.com who had on its own 11 characters, going to bit.ly 6 characters( only half!!!) and finishing with the newest addition, making URLs look like they were getting just a little too long, when Bit.ly introduced j.mp –only 4 characters wasted.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
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No method is perfect – GPS needs clear sky, aGPS improves this but still needs some satellites to be seen, GSM works like a charm if you have lots of antennas but falls dramatically if you’re in a remote place and WiFi positioning is good in cities, but absolutely lacks in remote zones. Only the composition of all can cover all the situations encountered in a normal life – crowded city when going to work and big, empty spaces when going to mountains to relax.
GPS is the oldest one from the frameworks available to the large audience. It isn't the first positioning system, but it is the one with the most success and longevity. It started as a military project in 1957. Because of the cold war, once the Russians sent to space the first man-made satellite, a team of scientists started monitoring its radio transmissions. The crucial discovery was that, because of the Doppler Effect, the signal transmitted frequency increases as the satellite approached, and lowers as it continued moved away from them.
Scrum is one of Agile processes that use incremental framework for developing complex software and managing new products so it is considered more like a framework in which you can employ various processes.
The software as industry relies more on reusability and on site modifications. If a programmer finds a piece of code, of course respecting the intellectual property, can easily adapt it to his project. This approach is called adaptive, because these methods focus on adapting quickly to changing realities – no customer knows from the start exactly what he needs from the start.
This methodology and set of principles has the root in the Toyota company. After the Second World War, the Japan and its companies were almost ruined both physical and financial. To recover the economy, they had to rethink all the processes of production in order to maximize their efficiency.
Agile methods are a family of development processes, not a single approach to software development. It represents the ways of creating software in a lighter, faster, more people-centric way. The base of this is the Agile Manifesto, widely regarded as the canonical definition of agile development and accompanying agile principles.
The roots of agile programming as we know it can be traced back to 2001. At Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, a group of seventeen people met have fun, but also to find common ground on a issue that was too much discussed but no result can be achieved.They were adepts of Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming and other agile techniques, joined together by the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes.
I created a special page which collects freely available exchange rates from BNR (National Romanian Bank) and presents them in a graphical form. This way, the viewers of my website will always be on the edge with exchange rates, as soon as BNR posts them (usually around 13:00 GMT+2).
One could set a cron job to update his application exchange rates from a server every day at a specific hour so its application will be up to date. I used it because the Romanian National Bank doesn’t have a proper page to check for exchange rates – they present just the numbers, but no trends, no charts – nothing visual.
Just a reminder for posterity : posting with .Net its so easy! Check out the Cocoa touch framework to realize the difference!
I've chosen the Annotated time line chart. The reasons were the complexity of settings, lightweight on the traffic but also the fact that they support quite good their code. The page is still small ( around 100 Kb for the source AND flash) and loads very fast.