software development

Your Development Crutches?

July 18, 2007

It was at the recent Aussie (Clarion) DevCon that I got to see one of my big crutches. In the first day of Capesoft Training, very early on, I was struggling to concentrate on doing work. It was music. You see, for a few years now, I’ve developed a pavlovian response/need to have headphones on [...]

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Express Editions of Development Tools

July 18, 2007

MS really did it right with the Express Editions of their Development tools. I like the idea very much It would be interesting to get some stats on what products are being created (or started) with the Express editions. I’d like to know how MS is measuring the success of this strategy. Letting people have, [...]

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Threading Issues

July 18, 2007

So while I’m sitting here, waiting for a huge app to compile .. thought I’d share some pain. I have a thread variable that is being set with 180 before it’s used. I’ve done the usual searching (through the txas and using UltraEdit search in files) for anything using the thread variable. It’s all kosha. [...]

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The Future Rarely Listens To Me

July 18, 2007

Was just reading this post, http://stuandrews.com/2007/02/id-cry-if-there-were-any-tears-left/. I had some big plans earlier in the year. I guess they are still alive, just barely. I’d still like to create software and sell it myself. You know the biggest problem i faced? It was the selling part. The simple act of knowing that people can now buy [...]

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Are You Bound By The Second Law?

April 27, 2007

Entropy Increases. Or, _Chaos_ breeds. Too often in Software Development the Second Law of Thermodynamics holds sway over projects.  Over programmers. Over tools. Code is convoluted. Too many people worked on one piece of functionality over the years, noone leaving notes. Documentation is mangled. Direction has changed more than once in the past few months. [...]

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Being Special

February 20, 2007

There is something intoxicating about being special. A person defers to you in conversation. The team lifts you up after scoring the winning try. A son hugs his mother, asking her to tell him about dinosaurs. See what that special is? It involves relationships. Relating to one another. One person, speaking, doing, thinking, with or [...]

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A Big Weekend Out

January 14, 2007

Well. Phew. As per the previous post, I’ve been working my tail off .. but no longer for imaginary ideas and applications designated to be just on my hard drive, never seeing the light of day. This work .. the WORLD can see! Whoot. http://www.archertechnologyservices.com is just going off. It’s such an amazing-ling empowering experience. [...]

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