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Category Archives: Half-baked Ideas
Sustainable Design
In my most recent IEEE Column, Creating Sustainable Designs, I explore what it means to create software that can be maintained without too many growing pains. I have been intrigued by Christopher Alexander’s writings, particularly the first two volumes of … Continue reading
It’s official…specs are “bad”
…according to Linus Torvalds. I have to chime in on Linus’ newsgroup posting and the attendent buzz it sparked on the net this week (and on the Linux Kernel mailing list). Linus stated: So there’s two MAJOR reasons to avoid … Continue reading
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