- Crystallizing the Software Development Process: A Chat with Alistair Cockburn
- Aug 10, 2009
- In this interview, Alistair Cockburn shares his views on missing the point of Crystal, running productive work sessions (including the one that spawned The Agile Manifesto), and whether a project can be considered Agile if it doesn’t use all the accepted methodologies.
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- Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Feature Teams
- Aug 5, 2009
- Feature teams are a key to accelerating time-to-market and to scaling agile development, but a major organizational change for most. If you’re a change agent for large-scale agility, you need to really grasp the issues.
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- An Interview with Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones on Elements of Programming
- Aug 3, 2009
- Andrew Binstock interviews Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones, the authors of The Elements of Programming, on their new book, decomposing software, why C++ was their choice for the book, and their perspectives on OO and generic programming.
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- Elements of Programming: Transformations and Their Orbits
- Jun 18, 2009
- The application of the deductive method to your programs assures that your system’s software components will work together and behave as they must. In this chapter, the authors discuss transformations and their orbits.
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- A Half-Way Step to Apple’s Source Code: An Interview with David Chisnall
- Jun 5, 2009
- Longtime InformIT contributor David Chisnall talks Cocoa, GNUstep, and the Étoilé project with Linda Leung.
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- Advanced Flow Control for Objective-C
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall points out some of the more dynamic options that make Objective-C code even simpler than C.
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- Erica Sadun on the iPhone SDK, OS X, and the Computing Landscape
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall talks with Erica Sadun about the iPhone SDK, Objective-C, and what she'd like to see at this year's WWDC.
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- From NeXTSTEP to Cocoa: Erik Buck on the Development of Cocoa and Objective-C
- Jun 5, 2009
- Erik Buck talks with David Chisnall about the history of modern Apple development from it's NeXTSTEP beginnings to Cocoa and Objective-C today.
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- Fun with the Objective-C Runtime
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall takes a look at some of the activities made easy by OS X Leopard's public interfaces to the Objective-C runtime library.
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- Steve Kochan on the Evolution of Objective-C
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall talks with Steve Kochan about Objective-C and the differences between programming for the desktop versus mobile devices.
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- The Technology NeXT Gave the World
- Jun 5, 2009
- The current Apple is a fusion of the beleaguered Apple of the 1990s and NeXT. David Chisnall takes a look at some of the now-ubiquitous ideas that were popularized by NeXT.
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- Top Ten Reasons Cocoa is Great Because of Objective-C (and Not In Spite of It)
- Jun 5, 2009
- Erik Buck gives ten reasons why Objective-C makes Cocoa great.
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- Where the Web and the Desktop Meet: An Interview with Lee Barney
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall and Lee Barney talk about the blurring of the line between web applications and conventional applications.
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- Getting Started in Objective-C: Your First Program (LiveLessons Video)
- May 26, 2009
- Stephen Kochran guides you through the process of creating your first Objective-C program in this training video.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #8: Your Build Shouldn't Require More Than One Step
- May 16, 2009
- We join "The Craftsman," Robert C. Martin's series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this eighth tip in the series, the crewmen learn that building a project should be a single trivial operation.
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- Show Me the Movie with DirectShow
- Apr 28, 2009
- Jeff Friesen shows you how to build three Windows media players using C++ and Microsoft's DirectShow technology.
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- High-Performance Applications with C++: Video Podcast Transcript
- Apr 17, 2009
- Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter talk about the measure of a quality programming language
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- Design and Evolution of C++: Video Podcast Transcript
- Apr 13, 2009
- In this transcription of an OnSoftware session, Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter talk with Ted Neward about writing good books, the (lack of) hype for C++, and how different programming will be in a multicore world.
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- SQL Server Forensic Investigation Scenario
- Apr 13, 2009
- This chapter walks through an actual forensic investigation scenario, showing the logical progression of events during an investigation.
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- Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter on the Future of C++: Part 1: Video Podcast Transcript
- Apr 7, 2009
- Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter talk about some of the much-anticipated improvements in C++0x.
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