noun the action of staying where one is or delaying action until a particular time or until something else happens. —- On the Yahoo! TDD group Kent Beck observed the following in the thread “TDD is Kanban for Code”: “I disagree that “relentless refactoring” is an implication of TDD is kanban for code. I find [...]
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waiting
December 3, 2010distinct
June 10, 2009adjective 1 recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type • physically separate 2 readily distinguishable by the senses —- In the course of trying to answer a question for my wife this evening, I ran across an interesting type of query that, though it would seem simple and common, I am [...]
multiple
May 28, 2009adjective having or involving several parts, elements, or members : multiple occupancy | a multiple birth. —- I have recently had to design some personal websites for friends and have been using the iWeb application that comes bundled with Mac OS X. It is a surprisingly good program and I have been pleasantly surprised with [...]
cache
February 24, 2009noun a hidden store of things, or the place where they are kept: an arms cache a cache of explosives/weapons/drugs (from Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary) The two most difficult problems in Computer Science are caching and parallelism. I have seen many computer systems have problems as the result of poor caching. In addition, they [...]
disgraceful
November 1, 2007A big thumbs down to AOL Mobile. Their website is a horrible jumble with Safari, Firefox, OR IE 6. Only IE 7 works properly. This morning I wasn’t able to log in at all under Safari or Firefox. What a load of crap. It’s a shame that the web has come to this. So much promise [...]
Short SiteMeteredness
July 2, 2004Although it pains me to admit it, I clicked on an ad on SiteMeter today. My experience illustrated exactly why navigating the internet, despite its great potential, still feels like walking around a part of town where you know you don’t want to be. As I was checking out my blogs visitor statistics, I saw [...]
Web Services Are Not New
June 29, 2004I was reading an article in <a href=”http://www.enterprise-architect.net” >Enterprise Architect</a> magazine and came across the following quote, “Software as a service has become viable because of the ability to deploy interoperable SOA built on web services…” This is a common sentiment, which is, unfortunately, completely untrue. </P> <P><a href=”http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.asp” >Don Box</a> was the first person [...]
Joel On Software hits a Home Run
June 18, 2004Joel has written a very nice article called “How Microsoft Lost the API War.“ I have been saying this (though not as well and completely) for years. The true irony is that Microsoft has inflicted this on themselves. It is strikingly similar to the way IBM temporarily incapacitated itself through the success of the IBM [...]
Sun’s Java Website???
March 3, 2004It was down for the entire day yesterday and there was not a word in the press or anywhere? What’s going on? Sounds like a cover-up!
