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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:38 AM

Is software engineering what professional programmers do?

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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Monday, October 11, 2004 8:48 PM

Software engineering is not, yet

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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Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:55 PM

Handbook of Software Architecture

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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Friday, October 08, 2004 10:13 AM

Simple XML Schema Definition snippet - hierarchy

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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Friday, October 08, 2004 9:39 AM

Simple XML Schema Definition snippet

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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