Saturday, May 22, 2010. All open source with no dominant conglomerate running frameworks, dev techniques, etc.

Are We Having Fun Yet? Musings from an iconoclast and hater of nonsense. The main Network Rail route to the South West of England, ending at Penzance in Cornwall, is the only contiguous route through that part of the country. At one time, other routes, both main and branch, existed, but most of those routes were closed and dismantled in the period 1964-1972 as a result of the rationalization of the UK rail network that implemented the Beeching Report.

In view of your manner of spending your days I hope you may learn, before ending them, that the effort you spend on defending your ways could better be spent on amending them. Unfortunately, many of these women are wrong. They could succeed in engineering or computing, and it is in our interest that they do. 10 programming languages that could shake up IT. The story of computing is the story of humanity.

This is the Official SEMAT Website. Position papers for the SEMAT Workshop. Proceedings of the Semat Zurich Workshop.

A Toolbox of Software Architecture Review Techniques - Pt 2. The first article in this series. Looked at the simplest thing that could be useful when doing architecture reviews. This one looks at how you structure a more systematic review using the collected experience of our industry.

Miércoles, 6 de octubre de 2010. Miércoles, 6 de octubre de 2010. Decimos un colega y yo en la oficina cuando alguien hace algo levemente incorrecto, como llegar dos minutos tarde. Y es que los suizos son muy correctos, parece que haya un gran ingeniero pensando en todo. Con un compartimento aparte para echar las cáscaras, para que ni se te ocurra tirarlas al suelo ni tengas que rebuscar la última castaña entre las cáscaras de las otras.

I received this question in an interview with SDTimes. Although answering this question is like walking through a mine-field, I was so intrigued by the question that I accepted the challenge. I think it is neither. It is more like a craft. However, when do you really need craftsmanship when writing code? Follow the conversation with me on Twitter.