November 7, 2009 | In: People
Do you remember when Java's promise for platform independence opened new frontiers in architectural planning? Or when Extreme Programming gave new life to an audience disillusioned by the Waterfall model? It seems like only yesterday when these two...
January 1, 2009 | In: People
Describe your first computer program. The first I remember was a tic-tac-toe Java applet back in the summer of 1995. My good friend John and I purchased O'Reilly's 'Java in a Nutshell' book in March of that year. I voraciously read and tried the...
January 1, 2009 | In: People
Describe your first computer program. I programmed a character-based worm moving on the screen, written in the legendary Texas TI-99/4A Extended BASIC. A few days later, I could create my first sprites and I could detect collisions between them. Many...
January 1, 2009 | In: People
What attracted you to software development? I got in touch with my first computer back in 83, a TI 99/4A. At this time the high school “Computer Lab” was been installed. It consist of 8 computers. Wow! Just too cool stuff for a nerdy guy, who...