Such was one of the many pieces of advice of Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month and while others of Brooks aphorisms have stood the test of time, completely scrapping a codebase is today seen more as an aberration than a painful but necessary part of the process.
Andrew Binstock …
more ...If the November elections are anything like the Democratic caucus I just attended, it will really be something. Turnout was 4-5x the 100 or so expected and the workers ran out of Democratic party registration forms. There was lots of visible support for Obama (native son, true) and none for …
more ...Based in the S3 Cloud (of course).
Every book has a unique Wiki based on ISBN.
You annotate via a Kindle-browser-friendly blogging engine.
You can view threads chronologically (normal blog view) or if they incorporate references to Kindle "positions," they can be threaded by location in the book.
Server-side stuff …
more ...Continuations are one of those things (like lambda expressions a few years ago) that people seem to struggle to explain.
Doesn't this capture the essence?
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This photo was taken by Ron Dahlquist yesterday off Maui.
Personally, I got up early to go for a swim in a whale-rich bay this morning and the surf was up and I forgot to shave so my mask kept flooding. It sucked (for sufficiently small values of "sucked").
more ...\<a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2008-02-14.php"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new technical committee to extend the Web Services Business Processes Execution Language (WS-BPEL) to support human interactions.
BPEL4People is comprised of WS-BPEL Extension for People and Web …
more ...Yes, I write a column called "MS and .NET Watch," but it's a technology and process column, not a corporate analysis. Concurrent programming models I can follow, who's in and who's out in the airy realms of MS Corporate is entirely beyond me. I think though, that \<a href="http …
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The seas are filled with humpbacks, both breeding and nursing. If you go in the water, you can hear them a little if you're on the surface, but if you can swim down 5' …
OK, so if you see this and it's more than a few hours after the posting time, that's good news.
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