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March 2005 - Posts

Friday, March 18, 2005 1:00 PM

The need of a coherent, intelligible and complete software design method, as the veteran Booch Method

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
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:20 PM

Is source code really the actual design of a software product?

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, for
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Monday, March 07, 2005 7:28 PM

A Maturity Reference Model or Advice for Software Development Managers

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/Articles/SDManagerAdvice.html
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Monday, March 07, 2005 7:27 PM

Crystal Clear:A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams by Alistair Cockburn

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 ‘instanciated’?
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:58 AM

Microsoft Word 2003 – one XML InfoSet, a Microsoft Word 2003 rendition

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
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:29 PM

Microsoft Word 2003 – one XML InfoSet, many renditions

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" ?>
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