############### 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 `_ .. raw:: html Building Skills Content Management Culture of Complexity Data Structures and Algorithms DocBook Economics of Software Macintosh Methodology for Non-Programmers Personal Web Toys Technology News Unit Testing in Python War Stories and Advice