Technical project management is an act of balancing. There are many interests. Some interests are inherently increasing product quality: someone may want to spend more development time for unit testing and documentation (to improve long-term maintainability), others want to spend more development time for small UI details striving for amazing user experience, yet another person …
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This Week in Twitter
Something like this. http://t.co/V8XILETS # @bobuk ??? ???? ????, ?? ?????????? ??? ?????????? http://t.co/TophcizY # @bobuk ???, ?.?. ?? ?? ???????? ? ?????????? ????????? ???? mozilla foundation? ??? ??????? ? ???? ????????????? ??????????? # Gaokao. A week later, China is still resonating. RT @isaac: Gaokao Madness http://t.co/2L9tPoAa via @cdt # Baby sunflower http://t.co/MtjXK17l # An …
Anne Davis – No, I’m Not Going Anywhere
Anne Davis – No, I’m Not Going Anywhere
iScreen or not? That’s the question
Hehe, the last chance to try to predict anything before it will be made official on WWDC… In my previous post on the iScreen, I’ve already described the most important features of the product from my point of view. What I’ve missed was the actual user interface. I don’t think it will be Siri. In …
This Week in Twitter
On WWDC, Apple will either announce their solution to TV problem, or will make their first step to decline. It is their last chance now. # Yet another chance for everybody to start using a password safe and generator (if not using yet). I'm using KeePass. #LinkedIn #facepalm # Ade, Firma Metz! Alles Gute, Labor-FS …
TV Made in Germany
Yesterday I became a proud owner of Metz Carat (which is a special edition device similar to Chorus Manufakturkonzept). For this post, I’ve decided to pick a competitor’s TV in the same price range (around 800 €, note that I’ve got a special employee price for the Carat), which happens to be LG 42LW570S, and to compare …
This Week in Twitter
Remember my red box test? Just look how a red triangle is made, and you'll be convinced HTML/CSS should burn in hell. http://t.co/UWbwDz7D # @eldarmurtazin TVersity # Just posted a photo http://t.co/NqIjWmUV # Congrats to @microsoft RT Amazon Instant Video Comes to Xbox 360 http://t.co/12X8cSPH # I FOUND IT! After last 3 weeks of kernel …
Transcoding for Smart TV
Sometimes, the world of Internet video on demand looks down on the TV. After all, in the Internet, users have the choice of 50 to 120 thousands of items to watch, 1000 times more than on PayTV or 10 times more than in DVD rental. But, the internet video is still lacking fidelity. Here is how you should transcode if you …
This Week in Twitter
from now on ????? ????????????? ???, ??? ????????? ????????? "????? ??????" ????. ? ????????? ??????? ??????????? ?????????? ? ??????? ? ??. # Fascinating, how inventive parasites are. http://t.co/f9H0hCwD # Third kernel-space debugging week in a row, figuring out how an undocumented hw H.264 decoder behaves. Dejavu, again problems with seek. # is thanking God for …
Push-Pull Tactics
1. Microsoft: we will equip our tablet PCs with pens so that one can precisely manupulate them. And, we don’t need to re-write our software. Apple: (quietly scheming) Google: uhm, what? Tables PCs? 2. Apple: Hey, we’ve made this amazing revolutionary device, and guess what, you don’t need a pen to use it, just use …