Monthly Archives: November 2009

A solution to software maintenance from long ago?

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Karl

Communications of the ACM: You Don’t Know Jack About Software Maintenance: Software maintenance is not like hardware maintenance, which is the return of the item to its original state. Software maintenance involves moving an item away from its original state. … Continue reading →

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Congratulations

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Karl

Congratulations Arpit: So long Engineering, hello User Experience Congratulations Livia: Happy real age to me

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Participants at Hacker News take Myers-Briggs

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Karl

The results are interesting. BTW – I consistently come up as a ENFP-Champion.

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HTML5 bad for WYSIWYG editors?

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Karl

CMS and blogging software engineers might have a hard task ahead of them trying to support HTML5. (via Shelley Powers).

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A Thank You to Sesame Street

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Karl

The Muppet Newsflash: Sesame Street Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Two New History Books Old clips of Elmo with Kermit on YouTube helped me expose Emma to the Muppets a few years ago. Now Muppets are part of the Sesame Street … Continue reading →

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Links related to the changing economy for November 24th, 2009

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Karl

Douglas Ruskoff: Video Radical Abundance: How We Get Past “Free” and Learn to Exchange Value Again.: We are at a crossroads. Right now we have the ability to optimize our systems, our technologies, and our currency to humans, rather than … Continue reading →

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Let’s hear it for Philly

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Karl

Ronnie Palnesczky: Philadelphia high-school kids best MIT in $10M car contest Alex Hillman: We’re Not Done Yet NYTimes: Philadelphia Gives Homeowners a Way to Stay Put

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Alfresco Links for November 25th, 2009

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Karl

AlfrescoWiki: Roadmap Jeff Potts: Top Five Alfresco Roadmap Takeaways Shane K. Johnson: Flex/AIR, CMIS & Alfresco

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NoSQL, Relational Database, ETL Link-a-rama for November 25th, 2009

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Karl

Jon Moore: NoSQL East 2009 Redux Dare Obasanjo: Building Scalable Databases: Perspectives on the War on Soft Deletes Explain Extended: What is a relational database? Explain Extended: What is the entity-relationship model? Data Doghouse: Data Integration: Hand-coding Using ETL Tools … Continue reading →

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Research: Software development roles and responsibilities

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Karl

Trying to answer the elusive questions of: What is a Software engineer? What is a Lead Programmer? What is a Tech Lead? What is a Principal Engineer? What is a Software Architect? What is a Technical Project Manger? What is … Continue reading →

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