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Like I go to the University of Waterloo and am going for a computer science major…and looking to take a software engineering option. However doing it this way doesn’t make me a canadian lisenced engineer. Does that mean I can’t get a …

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A new beta build of VirtualBox , Sun’s Oracle’s free x86 virtualization software, makes it possible to run Mac OS X as a guest operating system…no shenanigans or flaming hoops to jump through, just pop in the $30 retail Snow Leopard upgrade disc and go. This had previously only been possible with some awkward Hackintosh -style maneuvering, or using recent editions of commercial virtualization products. At this early stage, performance is fairly sluggish, the screen size is fixed and there’s no sound support, but the OS otherwise appears to run feature-complete (including networking and USB).

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VirtualBox beta runs Mac OS X

Car electronics / car software / computer science professor Ingolf Krueger picked up the Science Friday microphone on April 30 and shared his knowledge with Ira Flatow and with the world. Listen to the NPR Science Friday show here: …

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT Cost: Free Abstract In this presentation we first discuss some of the challenges in building safety-critical systems that are increasingly software reliant and the need for formal analysis of system models discovering system-level problems earlier in the development. We then provide a summary of the capabilities of the SAE AADL standard suite, its application in industrial initiatives and research projects, as well as its relationship to other standards. We close the presentation with a case study of an international aircraft industry initiative called System Architecture Virtual Integration (SAVI).

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INCOSE Webinar May 6, Peter Feiler, Model-Based Engineering of Software-Reliant Systems with the Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL)

Printer News: HP LaserJet P1606dn Delivers 26 Pages Per Minute in a Small Package The HP Laserjet P1606dn introduces “plug and print” technology that enables you to start printing without installing a driver (software that communicates with your printer). Instead, HP embedded the printer driver in the LaserJet P1606dn.

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HP LaserJet P1606dn Promises Painless "Plug and Print" Installation

Almost a year ago I shared an advice to use test cases . Not because they are crucial during testing or dramatically improve the quality of the product (they are not), but because of value you get when you create test cases. A confession (and yes, you’d guess it anyway if you read the title): we don’t write test cases anymore

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Why We Don’t Write Test Cases Anymore

As promised here are a bunch more links that I hope you will find interesting and useful. The CSTA blog had a couple of recent posts of interest: Preparing Future Elementary Teachers to Teach Computing Dealing with Competence Issues & Confidence Lynn Langit (@ llangit ) is a developer evangelist at Microsoft who has a passion for education as well

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Interesting Links 28 April 2010

In one of recent posts I touched the subject of motivation . The article was about typical motivational efforts which don’t work. I brought a few of meta-examples like telling people how much they are responsible for the project/organization, building bonus system which tries to address the problem or public critic as a way to make people care

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How to Ruin Motivation

Two of my favorite companies are working together: Eye-Fi is updating its line of SD card-based Wi-Fi adapters to use Devicescape’s automated hotspot login system. This is extremely neat, because otherwise, those hotspots are unavailable for login

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Eye-Fi Partners with Devicescape for Easy Hotspot Logins

XP is a “ software development through the eyes of an engineer ” kind of methodology. It focuses heavily on engineering practices. On contrary, neither Scrum nor Kanban seems to care much about best software development practices

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Which Engineering Practices You Should Use

Prestigious Summer Camps at Swarthmore College The Digital Media Academy was founded at Stanford University ten years ago and has expanded to many prestigious colleges and universities all over the United States and Canada.  This year the Digital Media Academy will be offering an extensive number of summer camps for kids ranging in ages 6-18 at Swarthmore College!  Each camp features hands on learning experiences with cutting edge media technologies ranging from robotics, 3D modeling, animation, video production, game design, graphics and much more!  Click here for summer camp info:  Swarthmore College Summer Camps . Take advantage of the residential options available at Swarthmore College summer camps by allowing your kids to truly experience a pre-college atmosphere

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Prestigious Summer Camps at Swarthmore College

Hi, Max Herrmann here again, from the Windows Server RDS team at Microsoft. Last month, I blogged about Microsoft RemoteFX – a key RDS platform capability that we will introduce with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and which is designed to provide a media-rich, local-like user experience for virtual and session-based desktops and applications. The announcement of Microsoft RemoteFX created a lot of excitement in the market, especially among software and hardware partners who are already working on value-added solutions

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Microsoft RemoteFX: Closing the User Experience Gap

At 8AM this morning, judging for the US Imagine Cup finals began. Ten software design and ten game design teams each had 50 minutes to “Wow!” the judges with their presentations and demonstrations of their projects. By 12:30 it was all over but the judges decision meetings

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Full Day One for US Imagine Cup Finals

Barnes & Noble’s Nook 1.3 software update makes the built-in Wi-Fi more usable: The company has finally enabled its promised “Read in Store” option, which connects a Nook automatically to Wi-Fi networks in Barnes & Noble locations, and allows owners to read an ebook in the store at no cost for up to an hour per day. (You can’t choose among all ebooks, but some smaller set that’s been made available from “more than 200 publishers” including all the major ones.) The feature is still in beta.

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Barnes & Noble Upgrades Wi-Fi in Nook Reader

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HTC Droid Incredible: Software Tour

My classmates and colleagues and I have a particular way of speaking to each other when we discuss film and filmmaking, and after three years of film school the language we share is fairly rich and fairly idiosyncratic.  One of the expressions we like to use is “from soup to nuts,” which means from beginning to end (back in the early 19 somethin-or-others, a meal at a restaurant started with soup and ended with nuts). How long is the movie, from soup to nuts?

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Shooting and Editing From Soup to Nuts

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Oracle today announced Oracle VM Templates for a number of Oracle Applications including Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 Oracle’s JD Edwards Enterprise One 9.0 Oracle’s PeopleSoft 9.1 These Oracle VM Templates, based on Oracle Enterprise Linux, provide pre-installed and pre-configured enterprise software images that help eliminate the need to install new software from scratch, offering customers a time-saving approach to deploying a fully configured software stack. Learn more about Oracle VM Templates

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Rapidly Deploy Oracle Applications with Oracle VM Templates

Since the beginning, we’ve been talking to customers about how our approach to virtualization is different and more powerful than any other company because Oracle has the “full-stack” of software (and even hardware these days!) to work with to create more comprehensive, more powerful solutions.

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Oracle VM and JRockit Virtual Edition: Oracle Introduces Java Virtualization Solution for Oracle(R) WebLogic Suite

A very interesting discussion followed one of my recent posts about people not willing to learn . There were a few different threads there but the one brought by David Moran is definitely worth its own post. David pointed it is manager’s responsibility to create learning opportunities and incentives for people to exploit them

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Should You Encourage People to Learn?