First: Principles

I've had an interest for a long time in the science of sports team rankings, for various reasons , which was forcibly brought to mind wh...

The Oracle version of SQL has some nice keywords for returning your data in an XML format. (I suppose the other servers do too, but I'v...

I wrote earlier about creating online communities around business-to-business applications, with a vague promise to add more, but didn't...

I've been writing various articles for Bloomingpedia in the last month or so, in an effort not so much to improve that site as to unders...

(Hey, this is my 200th blog post! And it only took me three years!) One principle of agile development that doesn't get a lot of attenti...

Sophia Travis is a Monroe County Council member - and, remarkably, one who is sophisticated enough to have her own blog. On one post , she...

I've accepted a new job with Envisage Technologies , a small software company in Bloomington. I'm excited about it as it's a co...

The problem with having six inches of snow dumped on us is that the hill that leads to our house has a slope that isn't quite a vertica...

I had to add different versions of a file to my installer today. Seemed easy enough to do - the files were available in the right places an...

Y'know, I'm not affiliated with Microsoft at all, although I own some stock and use their products happily. So I'd like to thin...

Chris has left LibraryThing . I don't know him, but apparently he's done some really good work for one of my favorite Web 2.0 play...

I got into a discussion with someone concerning the blogosphere and its effect on corporations today. Here's something I hadn't rea...

A traveler visited a city where many stone cutters were working. Approaching several, he asked the same question: "What are you doing?&...

This High School is a model for high tech high schools that's being pushed by the Gates Foundation and probably some other places, and ...

Joel's latest article on interviewing is up. It makes some good points, although he continues with the down-to-the-metal idiosyncracy th...

Ordinarily for me, reading and writing blogs is an intellectual exercise. I'm more comfortable and interested in discussing software pro...

Dr. Hanna's Practice #8: Perform regression testing that is based on impact analysis. The first practice in the list that you can't ...

Dr. Hanna's Practice #3: Test for both functional and quality requirements. I would have thought state charts and truth tables were fami...

The whole conference I was at this week for me revolved around the requirements management process. Partly because many companies I've w...

I've posted about the IQAA before, and I regret that I haven't been able to make it to their talks regularly. There is a bit of a ...