2006 [69 posts]

By Date:

• January 10 Why Is OO So Popular?
• January 11 Ouch, this is going to hurt
• January 20 Stating the Problem
• January 27 After Perl, what? (Revised)
• February 05 Perl Follow-up
• February 06 Control Break Reporting
• February 07 Opacity and Perl
• February 19 Don’t Pave the Cowpaths
• February 24 Rat-holes of Lost Time
• February 27 Agile Testing Goodies from PyCon 2006
• March 01 C#, Microsoft and Hegemony
• March 20 Making PDF’s with and without XSL FO (Revised)
• March 20 Offshoring Shows How Valuable Code Is (Revised)
• March 25 Offshoring and Short-Term Thinking
• March 27 Development, Pedagogy and Hobby
• April 05 The Twenty-Minute Solution
• April 07 The Weirdness Of Change (Revised)
• April 13 Python Object-Relational Mapping (Revised)
• April 17 Doctest beyond Python
• April 22 The Role of Open Source in the Enterprise IT Investment Strategy
• April 24 The Cost (and Benefit) of Open Source
• April 26 The Leading Edge (Revised)
• April 28 Notable Failure of Use Cases - Part 4
• May 04 My Microsoft Blind-Spot
• May 08 Software Engineering doesn’t fit the Standard Model
• May 22 What was this supposed to fix?
• June 07 Office is Bloated, Let’s Add More
• June 19 Faerie Dust™
• June 20 Python OODB (Revised)
• June 20 Over-Solving the Problem or When your architect is a DBA...
• June 26 Powerpoint Alternatives
• July 04 Replacing Powerpoint (part 2)
• July 11 Creating Value with Open Source Solutions
• July 11 The Root Cause of Turnover in IT
• July 19 Expertise and Expert Performance
• July 21 Is it Over-Solving or Exploiting Technology?
• July 30 How to Avoid Problem-Solving
• July 30 Three Arguments for Using the Hammer
• August 04 Tools Aren’t the Answer
• August 07 The Hubris of Calendrical Calculations
• August 07 Apple and Flexibility
• August 20 Calendar Calculations - Part 2
• August 20 Meeting The Customer’s Expectation (Revised)
• August 22 A New Architecture Involves Ignorance
• August 23 Deprecating Dynamic Languages (or Scripting Systems)
• August 23 Comments
• August 28 Google vs. the Herd
• August 29 Dynamic Languages and Corporate IT’s Objections
• August 31 Ways in which learning can be A Bad Thing™
• August 31 Creating Value with Open Source Products (part 2)
• September 06 Faerie Dust™ - Part 2
• September 08 It’s Strategic – but it’s not – but it was – now it’s a burden
• September 23 The Browser as OS? Perhaps Not
• September 30 Why SOA is DOA in some organizations
• September 30 More of the Open Source Value Proposition
• October 09 A Productivity Conundrum (Revised)
• October 11 Refactoring and Unit Testing
• October 11 Absurdity? Consistent Code and Inconsistent Data Structures
• October 20 Layers, Interfaces and Mutability
• October 28 Siren’s Call of DRM
• November 20 Coffee and a MacBook
• November 27 Who do you sue?
• December 02 PyCon Presentation
• December 02 MS-FUD V3.0
• December 12 Hidden Costs of “Convenience”
• December 17 Tying your automobile to a hitching post.
• December 23 XML - One Ring to Rule them All...
• December 28 A Good Reason for XML
• December 31 XML - Scripting - SQL - a DSL: which fits the problem better?

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