Alan Zeichick's proposal of an organizational Threading Maturity Model is an excellent contribution. As with object-orientation, it does not suffice for a single person to have mastery or near-mastery; the average ability of the team must be fair in order to maintain quality, chaos can be wrought by just one …
more ...My latest in SD Times is up, in which I decide to stop being polite about WS-*.
more ...Sorry about the "Service Unavailable"s throughout the day. My post on "Top 10 Things I've Learned About Computers From The Movies and Any Episode of '24'" got >1800 Diggs today. My ISP called me in the middle of the afternoon and said that my site was consuming 100% CPU …
more ...I'm the moderator of the "Development Environments" category of the Jolt Awards and this year the finalists are:
Development Environments
This makes for …
more ...Change and Configuration Management
AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
Automated Build Studio (AutomatedQA)
FLEXnet Connect (Macrovision)
Perforce: the Fast Software Configuration (Perforce Software)
Team Foundation Server (Microsoft Corporation)
CA Wily Introscope ChangeDetector (CA / Wily Technology)
Collaboration Tools
Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
Code Collaborator (Smart Bear Software)
Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)
NetBeans …
more ...Books (Practical/General Developer Interest)
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (Addison-Wesley) by Alistair Cockburn
Catastrophe Disentanglement (Addison-Wesley) by E. M. Bennatan
Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Apress) by Eric Sink
Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
more ...Alan Zeichick proposes a Threading Maturity Model.
more ...Allow me to reiterate. Update: Fixed link.
more ...Steve Pietrek tagged me, so...
I may be the world's worst student. I graduated High School by the margin of a D+ (in English yet, where I had 780s on both my SATs and boards), I dropped out of college (where I had dual majors in Marine Biology and, yes …
more ...Sorry about such a string of offtopics but now that I've posted something SD-related, I just have to tell you about literally bumping into Beth and Duane "Dog" Chapman at the airport. Tina and I were over in Honolulu a few days ago, all bleary-eyed and coffee-deprived from an early …
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