Here's an object lesson in bad requirements writing.
"Good" is defined as a nice simple and intuitive GUI interface. I would be able to just pick symbol from a pallette and put it somewhere and the software would automatically adjust the spacing.
Some problems.
I suddenly realized that QR Codes are everywhere. Except my business cards. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/qrcode/2.0 That should allow me to solve that problem and move on.
Recently started looking into Metadata Registries and UDEF and related semantic technology.
The Wikipedia page lists a bunch of relevant Metadata Registry projects and commercial products. Very nice. Easy to follow the links and determine features and benefits.
However.
A client has IBM Cognos. Is there any easy to to …
more ...Check out this picture.
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/12/27/what-5mb-of-storage-looked-like-in-1956/
When I was in college (1974-1978) 64K of RAM was the size of a refrigerator.
By 1982, 64K of RAM was an Apple ][+ fully tricked out with the 16K expansion card.
I vaguely remember working …
Okay. This is seriously cool.
The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) provides a controlled vocabulary that should be used to seed a project's data model.
See http://www.opengroup.org//udef/
We're looking at applying UDEF retroactively to an existing schema.
What a pain in …
more ...Just updated the Stingray Reader. There was an egregious error (and a missing test case). I fixed the error, but didn't add a test case to cover the problem. It's simple laziness. TDD is quite clear on how to tackle this kind of thing. Write the missing test case (which …
more ...See this article: "The COBOL Brain Drain" in ComputerWorld. This article is very, very well written and repeats a number of common fallacies.
The fallacies lead to expensive, labor-intensive in-house software development and maintenance. Either there's a lot of effort poking at the COBOL code. Or there's a lot of …
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I'm looking forward to this. I'll be talking about Python.