2005 [80 posts]

By Date:

• January 02 Configuration
• January 26 Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design
• March 21 Building Skills in Python
• March 22 Mac OS X 10.2 Issue
• August 31 Essay 20 - Moving the Topsoil
• August 31 I love Tiger
• August 31 Essay 1 - All Software Problems are Large or Complex
• September 01 Essay 2 - A Solution Is A Story
• September 02 Specifying-Bidding-Buying Software
• September 02 BLOKI not accepting new users
• September 02 Essay 3 - Assuming a Solution
• September 03 Why Are Things So Complicated? - 7 Deadly Reasons?
• September 04 7 kinds of complexity - 7 deadly sins?
• September 06 Essay 4 - Creeping Scope
• September 07 Essay 5 - Using the Requirements
• September 08 Essay 6 - Politics
• September 09 Essay 7 - Application Design
• September 11 Essay 8 - Data First, User Interface Later
• September 12 Essay 9 - Getting Started
• September 13 Essay 21 - Avoiding the Issue
• September 14 Essay 10.1 - When A Column Is Not A Column
• September 15 Essay 11 - Management Trump Cards
• September 16 Essay 12 - Don’t Talk to Strangers
• September 17 Essay 13 - Analysis Without Running Aground
• September 18 Essay 14 - Mutability Analysis
• September 19 Essay 15 - Errors and Exceptions
• September 19 Essay 22 - Predictability, Hysteresis and Idempotency
• September 20 Chat Bots, Poker Rooms, Who’s really Human?
• September 21 Essay 16 - Three Rules of Deferred Decision-Making
• September 21 What are “Requirements”?
• September 22 Essay 17 - Solution or Workaround?
• September 22 Essay 23 - Jumping the Technology Ship
• September 23 Essay 18 - What Is Your Problem?
• September 24 Essay 19 - Disentangling Use Cases and GUI Design (Revised)
• September 27 Deliverables, Process and Standards
• September 27 Essay 10.2 - When a Column is Not a Column
• September 28 Dead Hard Drive
• September 28 Good Design and Pragmatic Design
• September 29 Requirements
• October 01 Architecture
• October 03 Design
• October 04 More Marketplaces for Code (Revised)
• October 04 More Marketplaces
• October 04 Rolling Your Own HashMap
• October 05 Lessig’s Powerpoint-Fu
• October 07 The Value of IT
• October 07 Management Crutches
• October 07 How does Python stack up?
• October 07 Competition
• October 11 Implementation
• October 15 Office 12 Interface
• October 15 Deployment
• October 16 Object Modeling (Revised)
• October 22 One More Cool Thing About Python Is...
• October 24 Software Project Management and Magic: The Gathering
• October 24 Who’s Problem Is It Anyway?
• October 25 Rolling Your Own Hashmap (performance)
• October 26 Notable Failure of Use Cases
• October 27 Numerology
• October 28 Notable Failure of Use Cases - Part 2
• October 31 The Power of Static HTML
• October 31 Notable Failure Of Use Cases - Part 3
• November 01 Measuring Python Against Java (Updated)
• November 02 Python Unit Testing Frameworks (v3)
• November 02 Multi-Lingual Solutions: Explore in Python, Implement in Java
• November 03 Java - the new COBOL (Revised)
• November 05 Compare and Contrast (round 1)
• November 06 Paying Micro$oft Twice
• November 07 Compare and Contrast (round 2)
• November 09 Compare and Contrast (round 3, revised)
• November 25 Normalization for Performace (revised)
• November 30 Normalization - Some Comments
• December 01 Normalization Experiment Protocol (revised)
• December 02 Normalization - More Comments
• December 12 Normalization Results
• December 13 Tabular Results
• December 13 More Frameworks! (rev. 3)
• December 15 Twisted Trial
• December 20 SubUnit
• December 26 testresources

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