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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:11 AM

The engineering in software development – trails of design mastery

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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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:41 PM

Job security – it is up to us

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 presentation by
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:08 PM

Grand Challenges for software development

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://research.microsoft.com/projects/Grand%20Challenges/Grand%20Challenges.htm
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Saturday, June 12, 2004 7:11 AM

Wicked problems, righteous solutions

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). Specially
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Saturday, June 12, 2004 1:53 AM

The Professor Edsger Wybe Dijkstra school of thought

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, mathematics
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:34 PM

Re-positioning of original intent, purposes and scope of OO among SOA benefits

Among SOA benefits there is a re-positioning of original intent, purposes and scope of object–oriented techniques. Consider the structure below, look at it as the internal structure of a service in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The scope of object-oriented
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Monday, June 07, 2004 6:52 PM

Does SOA imply that OO is dead?

Is object-orientation dead in the presence of service-oriented architecture? I just talked with a respected practitioner and author in our industry about future directions and advanced topics; he thinks that we as industry still need to understand objects
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Friday, June 04, 2004 10:56 AM

Disciplined development and methodology

Subtitle: Software Development Methodology – The universal elixir (supposedly) By now, perhaps it is clear that software should be written following a disciplined software method. Most likely, this is a tremendous assumption and the industry is
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