Selenium the joy and horror - Cached page data, fails verification
Up until Selenium IDE was created, manual testing was such a PITA. Now we have Selenium, bus as all new technologies and tools, there are a few quirks there...If your tests are run very fast, and to...
View ArticlePicasso's Cubism and Surrealism
Taking a turn from IT topics, a art related post.I am not your usual art fan. But my strange world views allow me to look at art from "another angle". Reticently I went to Pablo Picasso exhibition in...
View ArticleWorld Of Warcraft: The most Expensive PC Game to Play
(UPDATE 2011 June 4th - World Of Warcraft: Still quite Expensive PC Game to Play (Updated pricing)) I started playing World of Warcraft(WoW) in 2006 and I have to admit I got addicted. The game was a...
View ArticleWalkthough the Honeycomb Gallery Sample application (Whats new)
As the SDK preview of Honeycomb is released so are the the sources for the sample applications. One important addition to the samples list is the Honeycomb Gallery application. This application is the...
View ArticleSoftware piracy, piracy... copyright infringement
Software "piracy" is rooted in a very big number of variables that are themselves not that easy to calculate...After some pondering on the issue and resent software industry's increase in trying to...
View ArticleAndroid UI framework
Android's UI framework looks quite nice when you start. But with projects of increasing complexities and complex views, you end up wondering if Android tools developer team has not gone far enough.So...
View ArticleTechnology progress
AbstractDue to the accelerating technological innovation analysts and businesses are constantly trying to figure out the next step in technology. Most if not all of the predictions are proven...
View ArticleTechnology progress cycles
Technology progress cycles IntroductionWith the accelerating technological innovation analysts and businesses are constantly trying to figure out the next step in technology. Most predictions are...
View ArticleUSB Setup for Debugging any Android device on Ubuntu
There are a few tutorials on how to setup your Linux desktop for Android development. There is one procedure that needs to be done for Ubuntu to become more device dev friendly*(as root):# groupadd -r...
View ArticleWorld Of Warcraft: Still quite Expensive PC Game to Play (Updated pricing)
So. Blizzard finally woke up to the inevitable reduction in payer count. Good for them. Now let's see how they actually reacted.Here are some stats for the prices around the net from January 3rd 2011...
View ArticleThe ride is over: Selling mobile apps as a business
If you are a developer and think “Hey! I have this great idea for a mobile app! I’ll make millions with it!” you are delusional.Let me explain why and what can be done to be actually able to make money...
View ArticleThe ride is over: Selling mobile apps as a business (Flyrry data)
As a followup, some Flurry data that shows that freemium mobile games bring in more income. What does that show? That post acquisition paid services model trumps sales.Flurry: Free-to-play Revenue...
View ArticleSoftware needs a new IP protection class of it's own
Over a good discussion with several of my new IP legal profession practising acquaintances we got to the topic of software an IP. What I personally got out of it is some more enlightenment over the...
View ArticleClass warfare in the OOP land
Social mobility is the tool to combat class warfare in the real world, but why doesn't it translate in any way into the OOP world?When an object is "born" it gets a class and that's it! Nasty lack of...
View ArticleAnother nail in the coffin of Mobile Game Development
I've been saying it for a while now - selling mobile apps through the AppStore is a dead business strategy for a while now(Previous post on the subject).Now a newer studies point to the same...
View ArticleWhy should you learn Node.js and MongoDB?
Given that the has been a massive "storm" over the net about these new technologies that are emerging to conquer the new markets, I want to write a simple blog explaining why it is very beneficial to...
View ArticleIt's formal - Mobile Games = Hollywood
It's "formal". As mobile game development moves forward it slips into the same pit as Hollywood has been for a long time.It's no longer enough to have a great game. A publisher, yes a publisher, has to...
View ArticleI say "Save mobile Java!" to both Oracle and Gogle
Ranting over Oracle vs Google is something I do all the time. But this time it seems that I have actually something reasonable on my mind.Both Larries have to have their heads checked. This squabble is...
View ArticleActive Record meet Active Data
Ever since I've read Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper, and other whitepapers that followed, there was a lingering idea in my head. Making the data a bit more responsible for it's own "fate".Everyone seems to...
View ArticleImportance of Fun in a Startup
Fun in a startup company sounds like a given, however not always it can be sustained post the initial stage. It's one of the most important elements of a strartup culture that you get, otherwise...
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