I’m visiting San Francisco and stayed with old friends of mine for the first couple of days, so I offered to cook for the family. Mostly optional, mostly whatever ratios look good. But more cumin than anything in this one, and try try try for the orange blossom water – it really makes the dish. [...]
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From Incite comes Insight is not only one of my favourite blogs for Enterprise Architecture, but one for good ideas about each doing our part to make the world a better place. The latest one helps pour some soothing balm on the inner cynical voice. Just for kicks, could all my ThoughtWorks colleagues do a [...]
What do troubadours, Joe Guttenburg, and Jimbo Wales have in common? They each have done their part in helping spread knowledge amongst their fellow humans. Wales’ Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a fund-raising appeal. When you see the link on the next Wikipedia page you use, why not throw a few dollars their way, and [...]
Recently, Les Hatton wrote a compelling article entitled The Chimera of Software Quality. (Les Hatton, “The Chimera of Software Quality,” Computer, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 104, 102-103, Aug., 2007) A section of the article headed The cost of poor quality points out the economic impact of poor software quality, and the almost belligerently ignorant [...]
During a recent leadership programme day at work, my penchant for toying with language led me to this one-liner — not worthy of Jason Yip‘s growing compendium of kÅans, but I think there’s something in it for all of us. Be an influencer, not an influenza.
I still hate the handling of spaces – especially when you’re throwing in mixed path delimiters using nice GNU tools on DOS/NTFS. If you ever want to get rid of SVN or CVS folders (or whatever) in a large source tree after someone has zipped it and sent it to you straight from their workspace, [...]
It’s 2007 – you’d reckon everyone would be able to handle spaces in directory names on Windows by now. You’d reckon the command program on Windows would be able to interpret stuff too so sensible command line arguments would be sent to the program being executed: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0no_not_again\bin\java -cp C:\Program Files\My App\classes you.goddabe.kidding And even it’s own [...]
Rainy day, ClearCase update. Dormant CPU. Zen moment – watching paint dry.
Javaâ„¢ isn’t really the success we think it is, you know. Java programs written the way Gosling et al originally intended would clearly be using the object-oriented paradigm (sure, they’d be applets in a browser, but that’s another story). What happens when the COBOL crowd (of which I was one) gets their working-storage sections and [...]
The blinding light of illumination has made me see what I’ve known was there all along. The darkness was comfort. It hid what I didn’t want to look at. Now I see it and I have resolved to deal with it for good, to have dominion over it, to remove it. It’s not going to [...]
