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April 2005 - Posts

Friday, April 29, 2005 12:04 PM

What “The Real-World” really mean...to you?

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 get
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Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:14 AM

Test-driven design entails a different mindset than validation and verification testing

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
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Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:11 PM

Strategic design decisions in software architecture –a reflective practicum

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 (e.g.
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Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:59 AM

What a wonderful and fulfilling experience this of pair programming

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
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:48 AM

Organic and evolutionary software design – a metaphor

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 with complexity.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:27 AM

In control of software architecture and design assets

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.
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Friday, April 08, 2005 5:52 PM

A more useful analogy to understand C# mindset

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# –pronounced
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Friday, April 08, 2005 12:18 PM

C# front end destructors vs generated CLR code

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
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:02 PM

The code wants to go somewhere, listen

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
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Sunday, April 03, 2005 12:41 AM

Unconscious design defined

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
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