Eventually, every programmer has to learn to make sustainable improvements in code that maintain or improve the goodness of its design, rather than unsustainable "patching" of code, which degrades the goodness of its design. Someone complains that members of his team are patching code instead of improving it, and therefore Extreme Programming...

Eventually, every programmer has to learn to make sustainable improvements in code that maintain or improve the goodness of its design, rather than unsustainable "patching" of code, which degrades the goodness of its design. Someone complains that members of his team are patching code instead of improving it, and therefore Extreme Programming...

How do people know when a chicken or some other bird has avian flu? Does it get a runny beak? Can chickens sneeze?

How do people know when a chicken or some other bird has avian flu? Does it get a runny beak? Can chickens sneeze?

WWDC 2004 - 3500 developers attending - 17% increase over last year Apple Stores - started 3 years - now have 80 stores 20 million visitors per year 250 million $ sales of third-party software ginza store in tokyo itunes music store - 70% market share for legal downloads, europe 62% of sales, 700,000 songs ipod = 50% market share by units sold...

WWDC 2004 - 3500 developers attending - 17% increase over last year Apple Stores - started 3 years - now have 80 stores 20 million visitors per year 250 million $ sales of third-party software ginza store in tokyo itunes music store - 70% market share for legal downloads, europe 62% of sales, 700,000 songs ipod = 50% market share by units sold...

Brad Appleton wrote a very good post on the XP mailing list about his experience with a Little-League baseball coach who collected a lot of metrics, using them to improve the kids' game, but not using them as rewards or incentives (or blaming/dis-incentives.) A few quotes: I used to play little-league baseball. Overzealous parents and coaches...

Brad Appleton wrote a very good post on the XP mailing list about his experience with a Little-League baseball coach who collected a lot of metrics, using them to improve the kids' game, but not using them as rewards or incentives (or blaming/dis-incentives.) A few quotes: I used to play little-league baseball. Overzealous parents and coaches...

In Eric Evans's Domain Driven Design, he describes various strategies to use when there are MultipleModels. Two or more teams may each have a BoundedContext for their unique models, and a SharedKernel for the model they have in common. In other situations, where one or more teams are forced to use an application or a database whose model is...

In Eric Evans's Domain Driven Design, he describes various strategies to use when there are MultipleModels. Two or more teams may each have a BoundedContext for their unique models, and a SharedKernel for the model they have in common. In other situations, where one or more teams are forced to use an application or a database whose model is...

Marco Dorantes Martinez points us to a Computer World article describing Sabre's rebuilding of its air-travel reservation system: "...four-year, $100 million-plus project...C++ and Java running on 17 HP NonStop database machines and 45 Linux servers...it's all working.". The article doesn't go into details, but a participant on that project has...

Marco Dorantes Martinez points us to a Computer World article describing Sabre's rebuilding of its air-travel reservation system: "...four-year, $100 million-plus project...C++ and Java running on 17 HP NonStop database machines and 45 Linux servers...it's all working.". The article doesn't go into details, but a participant on that project has...

Perhas the simpler solution is to take screen-dumps into photoshop, and use one of the filters to make it look like a line-drawing or charcoal sketch.

On Artimage.com/weblogs, Robert Martin writes "...then why would our company want to pay for crap that slows us down? Wouldn't they rather have good clean code that keeps us running fast? ... We often blame managers for schedule pressure. We often complain that our companies set unreasonable deadlines and have unrealistic expectations. This...

On Artimage.com/weblogs, Robert Martin writes "...then why would our company want to pay for crap that slows us down? Wouldn't they rather have good clean code that keeps us running fast? ... We often blame managers for schedule pressure. We often complain that our companies set unreasonable deadlines and have unrealistic expectations. This...