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  • Community Reality Check: Is INETA a concrete life raft?

    I'm asking you, dear reader, is INETA still viable as an organization? I don't know about your local user groups, but here in Nashville, we don't get nearly enough good speakers to fill our monthly timeslots. Worst of all, the presentations...

  • Announcing: the Nashville ALT.NET User Group

    This has been a long time coming, but it's finally here! Join the announcements list and jump in on the discussion . We'll plan our first meeting for later this month via the discussion list.

  • [Book Review] The Sciences of the Artificial (3rd Ed)

    In a nutshell, this book blew me away! I'm giving it 6 stars (out of 5). After seeing this book referenced in another book I'm currently reading and also seeing it on the SEI's Essential Collection , I thought it would be a good idea to pick...

  • [Book Review] IT Architectures and Middleware (2 Ed)

    What is Middleware? Whether your aim is to build a single, large distributed system or to integrate multiple existing systems into a single, large system-of-systems, middleware is your key to success. When you begin to distribute across multiple processes...

  • The Cost of Defects

    I just ran across some great stats on the cost of software defects. These are quotable, so I thought I would share. The following is a quote from Capers Jones in his book, Estimating Software Costs . For those unfamiliar with Capers work, he is one of...

  • Retaining Good People

    This is largely common sense, but I'd bet there's a large number of IT shops out there that haven't picked up on this yet. Do you want to keep the best people on your staff? Make sure you have career paths for them. If there aren't clear...

  • Estimating System Load

    One of the initial steps that every non-trivial project should go through revolves around determining system usage requirements. Here's a no-nonsense method for tackling this issue head-on. 1. Anticipate Usage and Usage Patterns A prudent developer...

  • And You Thought Your Deployments Were Tough

    Did you know: eBay deploys a new release every 2 weeks They add roughly 100 KLOC per week to the codebase That should be a little extra motivation to work on removing the waste and increasing the flow of getting your application out the door. If they...

  • On Comparing Current Tools to Futureware

    I'm going to take a quote from Daniel Simmons on why we should use the Entity Framework . I'm not specifically interested in his comparison with NHibernate because I think the following is true of many current O/RMs (whatever your personal flavor...

  • Don't Do That

    Over lunch today, I learned about one of the company's recent acquisitions. Here's the short of it: The production system has between 6k-7k different Access databases (databases, not tables) Since the app creates new databases on the fly, no one...

  • A Very Poor Object Model Is Really No Object Model At All

    First let me say that I've met Keith personally, and he's a really cool guy. Cool enough in fact, that he's on my RSS subscription list. I'd consider him a friend. :-) This is my response to his recent post, How To Not Screw Up Your Application...

  • A Reader Challenge

    This is a simple challenge. I want you to figure this out for yourself. It's an important step I think every developer needs to take for him/herself. Also, please don't give any direct answers in the comments or I will delete them. Non-answer...

  • Sun Votes for Open Source

    I managed to miss the acquisition in February, but this is really cool nonetheless. Sun Microsystems paid $1 Billion for the commercial support vendor behind MySql (yes, the open source database). What was the reaction? Sun Microsystems's acquisition...

  • Test First Development

    This is my attempt at sharing some of my personal reasoning around the topic of test-first development. Let me first sum up my thoughts in one shot: At the class level, form and function are significantly more important than implementation. Test-first...

  • [Book Review] Software Architecture in Practice

    Having stumbled onto some of the SEI's material on software quality attributes, I decided I had to know more. That was the motivation that drove me to read Software Architecture in Practice . It didn't hurt when the book was shortly thereafter...
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