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This can be cool stuff. Video Searching by Sight and Script Researchers have designed an automated system to identify characters in television shows, paving the way for better video search. Video Searching by Sight and Script

Last week I attended a seminar about our System Development Method. The course was rather interesting although I was pushing our seminar leader a bit. I feel that my experiences in project management and agile software development added to the seminar although I could have made this less obvious sometimes. I am so used in [...]

VersionOne conducted a global survey to highlight the value teams deliver from Agile development. Survey respondents work in companies of all sizes from small and mid-sized organizations to the largest global corporations. This survey summarizes the state of Agile Development in organizations covering every industry vertical from financial services, health care, and education to video [...]

Cool. Some might have followed the DARPA Grand Challenge last year. Now it will go into the next round by conquering the urban road, as reported in Robot cars will race in real traffic – tech – 03 October 2006 – New Scientist Tech. I find this interesting as we also work on such topics, [...]

I’d be very interested in the results of the study mentioned in the following article: Technology News: Developer: Putting Open Source Development Under the Scope A bit more from the article: How are open source software projects able to set their speed and quality on the best participants? That’s simple: “No meetings,” Berkus said. “I’m [...]

Learning from mistakes made by others is always a good idea. However, the article also looks a common reasons for coding mistakes. I found particular interesting the section on “Why do developers make mistakes?” where Ignorance Stress Boredom Human Frailties were identified as some reasons. Dr. Dobb’s | Avoiding the Most Common Software Development Goofs [...]

Dr. Dobb’s | Code Inspection Book | September 17, 2006 The book summarizes the results of 2500 reviews of 3.2 million lines of code at Cisco. “The book refers to a number of studies, some of which are relatively obscure. For instance, did you know that when reading a function developers repeatedly return to look [...]

I have managed an agile project and convincing developers to follow coding conventions isn’t easy. Thus, the following article was interesting for me: Dr. Dobb’s | Coding Conventions: Make Them Agile | September 20, 2006 The main conclusion is that the coding conventions should come from the team themselves, should be simple and localized. “… [...]

Jospeh Weizenbaum is a computing pioneer and known amongst many for his ELIZA project. Now there is a film about him: Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work.

While being in Boston, I attended the open floor session of the SD Best Practice 2006 conference. I will consolidate my findings from there and publish some of it here too. I was impressed by the many talks and tools for Agile Software development methods. Next week I will be on a course – learning [...]