Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" -Edsger W. Dijkstra
One of the finest thinkers on computer software development has passed away on August 7, 2018....
Date: 08/11/2018
‘You just narrated part of my story exactly! But there is a second part of my story that led to my...
Date: 08/04/2018
My posts might be no longer welcome in this MSDN blogs site. If that ends to be the case, then...
Date: 06/24/2018
There is beauty in computer programming and software design!!! What a wonderful professional...
Date: 05/29/2018
Being wrong, and become aware of that, are two different instances of reality. For me, the...
Date: 02/25/2018
Given the rate of time, effort and cost against actual delivered quality value of a particular...
Date: 10/11/2017
The original «The growth of a feature» post is about twelve years old. Yet, the history of iterative...
Date: 01/08/2017
Software design & computer programming is my art, not my work. That’s why my trend is to enjoy...
Date: 10/17/2016
I will post further reflections on business value with software development and on the reflective...
Date: 10/04/2013
...or why I see no authority in traditional certification exams? I have followed authority and I am...
Date: 09/02/2013
Designing software, like many other interesting activities, involves both science and art [Knuth74]....
Date: 06/23/2013
What could possibly inspire someone to take test-driven design (TDD) more seriously? I can only tell...
Date: 05/25/2013
What is architecture? Which could be the shared properties among diverse schools of thought and...
Date: 03/01/2013
A presentation by Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, about good programing styles. This presentation...
Date: 02/10/2013
The creation of software-based business solutions, also known as application development, could...
Date: 02/08/2013
Time ago I posted about the obsolescence of some theories for project management (The underlying...
Date: 01/31/2013
How bad could organizational hierarchies be for the advance of professionalism in the business of...
Date: 12/09/2012
Building trust is precisely what I look for when I think about adaptive development in general. We,...
Date: 11/22/2012
In addition to this: Do you think that instead of "We are uncovering better ways of developing...
Date: 11/10/2012
For those interested in answer a survey or questionnaire by Giancarlo Succi and Andrea Janes:...
Date: 11/10/2012
Task: as a breadth developer, I need to analyze a set of VB6 legacy applications and enlist all...
Date: 04/09/2011
There is the notion of breadth developer, which encompasses the attitudes of the practical mindset:...
Date: 03/01/2011
The subject matter of «software engineering» has been of enormous interest to me since...
Date: 02/04/2011
Phillip G. Armour, in his work The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Production and...
Date: 02/04/2011
I attended a wonderful talk about me: being wrong. That is, the talk was about a persistent trait of...
Date: 01/31/2011
Creative thinkers and great designers often share a scientific view of life. Scientific thinking has...
Date: 12/22/2010
The event La Ciudad de las Ideas occurred in the city of Puebla, Mexico, 11-13 November 2010,...
Date: 11/30/2010
Watts S. Humphrey, founder of the Software Process Program at the Carnegie Mellon Software...
Date: 10/31/2010
I have heard through many years that a certification-based curriculum is very, very important for...
Date: 09/17/2010
Often I hear phrases or calls, on the part of people in a hierarchical position in an organization,...
Date: 08/26/2010
Taylorism* still has strong mental roots in the endings of post-industrial era; hence, many still...
Date: 07/18/2010
Latest Microsoft Application Architecture Guide is available from the following hyperlink: Microsoft...
Date: 07/15/2010
A normal and healthy situation in a team of peers is open communication. This is precisely what is...
Date: 06/05/2010
Browsing the Internet is like going alone outside, like walking on the streets of cosmopolitan urban...
Date: 05/11/2010
Una introducción al pensamiento crítico Por Steven D. Schafersman. Enero 1991....
Date: 05/02/2010
I have waited some years for this work to be published, it is out there now: The Design of Design:...
Date: 04/10/2010
Finally, there is work on software theory on the hands of programmers (most of them), it is the...
Date: 03/23/2010
How do you know if all this about Agile is not a scam? How do you know if all of it is about a...
Date: 02/08/2010
The minds behind The Standard C++ Programming Language have been much influential to my own thinking...
Date: 01/11/2010
Alternate title: Cognitive dissonance in software design. How to know if a design process is help or...
Date: 12/11/2009
The category of this post is Personal and is all about Technical Readiness, my own one. Analysis,...
Date: 11/26/2009
Writing software for my own—or my kids—use and delight is almost always a fun and successful...
Date: 10/30/2009
The act of writing demands some skills from the writer, skills of the intellectual kind. Of course,...
Date: 09/30/2009
What is the idea behind SQA? If SQA stands for “Software Quality Assurance”, then I hardly find a...
Date: 08/30/2009
Bertrand Russell 1/3 Bertrand Russell 2/3 Bertrand Russell 3/3 Ludwig Wittgenstein Contra Socrates
Date: 08/22/2009
For a hint, see the The Standish Group CHAOS Report summary: CHAOS Report Summary 2009 "These...
Date: 07/22/2009
I have observed, time after time, an author or renowned professional share or publish her opinion...
Date: 06/15/2009
Sometimes, the idea of a tool could gravitate around a very simple piece of code, an enabling...
Date: 05/08/2009
The acts of exploring and discovering which start from simple doubts —kind of ‘I am not entirely...
Date: 04/30/2009