by Adam Kerrison | 11 Jul 2007 | Permalink | Featured, IT Management, Software
We’ve recently been struggling with issues caused by a OS patch, which is not that unusual.
To understand the problem you need a bit of history. Back in the early 1990’s Sun switched from BSD based SunOS to System V based Solaris (we’ll skip the marketing move of rebranding SunOS 4.1 as Solaris 1).
by Allan Mertner | 03 Jul 2007 | Permalink | Software, User Experience, Web 2.0
I recently discovered Google Reader, and it has changed how I interact with the web in general, and blogs in particular. As it becomes more widely used, I expect it to have even more of an impact.
In principle, the Reader is a simple aggregator of RSS…
by Allan Mertner | 18 Jun 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering
A lot of software companies use contractors to supplement their in-house Engineering teams, instead of hiring more permanent staff to develop a bunch of shiny new features. But how do you decide which route to take? What are the deciding factors?
by Alex Horstmann | 31 May 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering, User Experience
We happened upon a very interesting Opera quirk at work today!
A developer decided to add an @import link to a non-existent CSS file that would be included at a later date. During testing we saw some interesting results with the page rendering, things being positioned in the…
by Adam Kerrison | 08 May 2007 | Permalink | Featured, IT Management, Software
In my early career I worked in Technical Support. One of the most important pieces of information you need to answer a customer question is what version of the software they are using.
Software version information is also critical important if you’re managing an IT estate (large or…
by Andy Ormsby | 02 May 2007 | Permalink | Featured, IT Management, Software
Earlier this year, I worked with some of our customers on the DST (daylight savings time) problem. In case you are lucky enough not to have heard about the DST issue, here’s a quick explanation: The US has brought forward the start of DST to the second Sunday of March…
by Duncan Grisby | 17 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering
Before co-founding Tideway, I worked at a commercial research lab in Cambridge. The lab started life as Olivetti Research Limited, commonly known as ORL. Later on, it became the Olivetti and Oracle Research Lab (still ORL, just with an invisible second O), and a while after that, it became AT&T…
by Allan Mertner | 27 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering
When we are not quite sure what we need to build, we build a prototype as a way of experimenting with different options and allow ourselves to take shortcuts and use hacks that in production code would be completely unacceptable. The intention always is to throw away the code at…
by Allan Mertner | 14 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering
In Tideway, the group of almost 40 people that designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains our software is called “Engineering”. In other companies it is sometimes called R&D or Development or something in that vein, but it boils down to the same thing: This is where a group of people…
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