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Software Pioneers in general, a software quality view in particular
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over 8 years ago
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Software Pioneers http://www.sdm.de/en/it-wissen/themen/sdmkonf-2001/index.html I found these videos and slides form people like: Ole-Johan Dahl Niklaus Wirth Fred Brooks Alan Kay Peter Chen Edsger W. Dijkstra C.A.R. Hoare David L. Parnas John Guttag...
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The people factor - The resistance to ideas is positive and vital
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over 8 years ago
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What I think, the ideas that direct my will, ideas such as my values, convictions and principles need a certain resistance from which they surround me, because that is something positive and vital. It comes to mind what Jerry Johnson (Menninger Business...
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Reminder for the agile practitioner: Management-Aided Software Engineering
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Always tell the truth as you know it. There are chances that “Unspoken Truths” creep around your project; as human beings, there are chances that you or other team member (including non-technical staff) are in denial, so make sure everyone remind to be...
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UML 2.0 Infrastructure feedback
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Context: Figure 5 - The top-level package structure of the UML 2.0 Superstructure Section 7.2.4 Superstructure Architecture of UML 2.0 UML2 Infrastructure Final Adopted Specification http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/2003-09-15 Questions to the team...
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A next level of consciousness
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over 8 years ago
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I have just understood at a finer level of detail, in what ways the arrogance shows in my mind and words. I have been studying meta-management concepts and I am about to really try to change the way I communicate with myself and with others. The date...
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Reflections on software design profession – introductory thoughts
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over 8 years ago
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There! That singular group over there! Can you see them? Yes! They all are there, in the landscape of software development practice, a singular group of software development practitioners, from past, present and future of this line of work. I can see...
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The program design micro-farm. Part 1 – initial thought
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over 9 years ago
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Computer programming, the design of computer programs, what a wonderful pursue!. Many of us take great joy in doing this peculiar activity, and I have observed that the greatest of these joys is seeing our programs begin used successfully to solve end...
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Is software engineering what professional programmers do?
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over 9 years ago
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I originally understood and believed (what I wanted to believe, in fact) that software development trade is a branch of engineering discipline. I studied the work of Watts Humphrey, Mark Paulk and others at SEI and related organizations, looking to improve...
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Software engineering is not, yet
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over 9 years ago
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I used to think that there was a full-fledged field of software engineering out there, that is to say, that software engineering is a branch of engineering discipline. This is not quite true. After some years of observation, personal research on the history...
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Handbook of Software Architecture
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over 9 years ago
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Grady Booch has a project, the Handbook of Software Architecture: http://www.booch.com/architecture/index.jsp there is little content yet, but looks interesting. Hopes this helps to clarify the purpose in life of a 'software architect'
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Simple XML Schema Definition snippet - hierarchy
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Write a XSD for the following XML document with nested elements: <? xml version ="1.0"?> < wn:root xmlns : wn ="wn-uniqueurl"> < wn:item info ="item1"> < wn:item info ="item1.1"/> </ wn:item > < wn:item info ="item2">...
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Simple XML Schema Definition snippet
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It is amazing how things get clearer when you actually try them out. For example, write by hand a XSD for the following simple XML document: <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ='ISO-8859-1' ?> < wn:root xmlns : wn ="wn-uniqueurl"> < wn:item...
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C++ as a very good medium for multi-paradigm design expression
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over 9 years ago
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Among 3 rd generation programming languages, C++ has been very successful; the amount of software in the world written in C++ is very substantial: C++ Applications http://www.research.att.com/~bs/applications.html There should be no surprise why Microsoft...
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What use good designers to convey good designs?
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over 9 years ago
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There is a good design process shared by design professions like architecture, urban design or engineering, of course there are stylistic variations of this process but it is essentially the same for all schools of design within this family of design...
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Good designs come from good designers, good designers come from...
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Good designers come from a continuous observation, scrutiny and practice of the reflective conversation with the situation at hand. “[The designer] works in particulars situations, uses particular materials, and employs a distinctive medium and...
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The path to architecture practice – overview
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There is a common understanding about the importance of conceptual integrity, nowadays in the software industry. This typically shows in conversations about this notion called software architecture. This is good. But... …something that...
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Modern business rules specification
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Business rules, yes business truly rules in software development; if software doesn’t behave accordingly established forms, conventions and requirements of the business, then it is useless. Therefore, behavior specification is paramount and...
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Architecture is not about scalability, not even about user, it is all about usage
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over 9 years ago
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Systems Read system as any social, economical, mechanical, electrical, biological, or software system. I recommend the following book for a deeper appreciation of systems in general. See: General System Theory by Ludwig von Bertalanffy...
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The design of tools for cooperative work
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over 9 years ago
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In the diversity of tools for tasks in group and cooperative work, the concept of wiki Web is gaining momentum, as said the following article: 'Wiki' May Alter How Employees Work Together http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB109105974578777189...
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Links
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Favorites Build Providers for Windows Forms Curso del.icio.us-adev Dr. Dobbs Web 2.0 and the Engineering of Trust MS Events MSDN Virtual Labs oopweb PDC Tech Roadmap Windows Live Academic Wolfram Schulte Architecture...
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The engineering in software development – trails of design mastery
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over 9 years ago
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Whereas software development practice still shows broad range of singularities, spanning from science and engineering to art and craftsmanship preventing a single classification, there is an aspect of software development as an engineering discipline...
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Job security – it is up to us
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over 9 years ago
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Thinking about software development industry, my previous post about Grand Challenges for software development and this other past post: Job security http://blogs.msdn.com/marcod/archive/2004/02/26/80609.aspx Bring to mind the following...
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Grand Challenges for software development
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Professor C.A.R. Hoare and other researchers have put together a list of challenges to computer science research for the years to come: Computing needs a Grand Challenge http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/14/grand_challenge_compsci/ http...
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Wicked problems, righteous solutions
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over 9 years ago
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It is very good to read how people using agile methods are helping with otherwise bad problems: Big IT, Doomed Comes to mind the excellent lecture by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.: "The Design of Design" Turing Award address at SIGGRAPH '00, (July 2000...
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The Professor Edsger Wybe Dijkstra school of thought
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over 9 years ago
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I have been reading some manuscripts of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra. He said several years ago that the nature of the programming task implies a sound background on mathematics and applied logic in order to programmers do a really good job. Take note,...
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