Stuart Wray, from the Royal School of Signals, wrote a paper for the January 2010 edition of IEEE Software Magazine entitled "How Pair Programming Really Works".
You just bought a data logger with a 14-bit ADC (analog-to-digital converter.) What exactly does that mean? Could you have gotten away with a 12-bit product? A 10-bit? Did you gaffe and really need a 16-bit data logger?
Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It. Does the MMR vaccine cause autism? Does watching violence on TV make children more violent? Are some programming languages better than others? People argue about these questions every day.
Eagerly anticipated by millions of programmers, Java SE 8 is the most important Java update in many years. The addition of lambda expressions (closures) and streams represents the biggest change to Java programming since the introduction of generics