Coding is design Good design style and good programming style share common properties. This is so because they are names for the same thing. Equally important is the observation that such activities are one and the same: design. A reason behind the...

"Silicon photonics will be everywhere" –Mario Paniccia, scientist at Intel Researchers of microprocessor technology is trying hard to make the chips of the future. This article summaries the achievements so far: Intel's Breakthrough http://www.technologyreview...

This has been valuable for me: Visual Studio .NET Default Settings Shortcut Keys For example, when studying illegible code with pages of code between pair of braces, Edit.GotoBrace o Edit.GotoBraceExtend are useful matching and selecting code between...

"If UML is the answer, not many people are asking the question" -Jim Fawcette http://www.ftponline.com/weblogger/forum.aspx?ID=1&DATE=06/06/2005&blog=#384 I have mixed feelings about a statement like that. On one hand, Visual Studio Team System...

Clearness and vagueness, precision and ambiguity are important concepts in software design in general; these are especially valuable when talking about computations at different levels of abstraction. The trick is to choose the concepts that match the...

Talking about your education and professional grounding, you should not listen to marketing hype and fads; the trick is how to clearly spot those. A hint: it should have the 'taste' of technique; that is, identifiable practical application + sound theoretical...

Alternative title: How to get more benefits from the application of software to solve business problems? You know, there is no a single factor that detonate productivity and quality, in other words "there is no silver bullet". Productivity and quality...

If you think this is a stupid question, please share with me why do you thing so. I would want to collect thoughts about what "The Real-World" means to you. My aim is to grasp if there is a sensible use of the phrase or it is just another way people...

Test-driven design is like "assertion-based design" rather than "validation and verification (examination)" testing. There are serious tools and techniques for testing, wonderful at the moment of wearing my validation and verification cap, at the moment...

In the context of deciding if BizTalk Server 2004 is included in a workflow software development solution: Traditional software architecture and design approaches try to get the strategic decisions right up-front, as all-or-nothing design decisions...

Another fellow team member and I spent the entire working day of yesterday in a pair programming session, overcoming challenge after challenge as we broke through towards the goals. The joy, the sense of realization and, the actual achievements; what...

A warning about metaphors In the hunt for comprehension, we humans tend to use metaphors and abstractions as a natural cognitive mechanism; that is a way the most complex object in the entire universe—the object beneath a human skull—deals...

Here is this post on an eXtreme Programming discussion group: Project: 1, Integration Machine: 0 that shows some signs of a team truly in control of their software design.

My main detailed design and programming experience has been colored by C and C++ programming mindsets; my second main influence has been Object Pascal and my third one, Java. When I first learned C#, I assumed that it is more like C++, based on "C#...

For those with a C++ background, C# destructors are not the same as C++ destructors. A C++ destructor in the language front end, that is the C++ syntax, remains the same in the backend execution engine (native code); whereas a C# destructor in the language...

A seasoned designer knows that a trait of design dexterity is to know how to identify what to remove from a particular design, making it simpler, conveying the same intention with fewer elements, in opposition to just adding elements to it. A curious...

Main Entry: un•con•scious Pronunciation: n- kän(t)-sh s Function: adjective 1 a : not knowing or perceiving : not aware b : free from self-awareness 2 a : not possessing mind or consciousness < unconscious matter> b (1) : not marked by conscious...

I have been recalling some good times of past battles in the trenches of software design and programming; I really miss the idea of a coherent software design method, one with conceptual integrity among its components, that is to say notation, process...

Our beloved software design and programming activity is about 50 years old and that counts as a drop in the ocean of the history of a well-established and well-understood human endeavor (a very adored drop indeed). One useful thing to do, as always...

Well, I just can not stop myself from posting this note. It is about an aspect of maturity, as usual one of our pillars in the software industry, talked straight and with good sense. Advice for Software Development Managers http://www.ayeconference.com...

I have found this book useful because of the level of detail and remarkable objective view about the aspects of methodology that works, that is to say, people-orientation. Have you ever heard about that in order to be useful a methodology should be...

So do you want a Microsoft Word 2003 rendition instead of the HTML rendition of my previous post? Why not? A mind can be downloaded to a variety of formats, HTML, Word, PDF, PS, RTF, flat, CSV, Excel, Visio, etc. Accordingly to the Office 2003 XML Reference...

How to write your thoughts once and produce as many renditions as you want? Here is one way using Microsoft Word 2003 XML capabilities: Start with the structure of your thoughts as a XML schema, let’s say: <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" ?>...

How to write your thoughts once and produce as many renditions as you want? Here is one way using Microsoft Word 2003 XML capabilities: Start with the structure of your thoughts as a XML schema, let’s say: <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" ?>...

I have found this article well written, I dont know if the author has been a software design practitioner but has a good sense of the problems in our industry; I personally disagree on the way his recommendations have been implemented but his article...