Category: Development

The User Interface Validator Pattern

A design pattern for user interface validations that treats the validation rules as data making it easily configurable and maintainable

Intresting idea, need to read further.

The User Interface Validator Pattern

A design pattern for user interface validations that treats the validation rules as data making it easily configurable and maintainable

Intresting idea, need to read further.

CVS Best Practices

This article explores some of the best practices that can be adopted while using CVS as the configuration management tool in your software projects.

And Software Configuration Management for Open Source Projects by the same fellow

This HOWTO discusses the applicability of Software Configuration Management to Open Source Projects. It explores various models of Software Configuration Management for Open Source Projects of various sizes.

Both look to be intresting reads.

CVS Best Practices

This article explores some of the best practices that can be adopted while using CVS as the configuration management tool in your software projects.

And Software Configuration Management for Open Source Projects by the same fellow

This HOWTO discusses the applicability of Software Configuration Management to Open Source Projects. It explores various models of Software Configuration Management for Open Source Projects of various sizes.

Both look to be intresting reads.

Joel is basicly on target, about Platforms. One component that also affects platform use is marketing, if not then OpenSource platforms would always win.

Everybody pays it except the developer — when you’re writing software for Windows, it doesn’t cost one extra cent.

Well not one extra cent other than the $1,000+ for the Visual X. The Apple case has defiantely changed, dev tools free for all on the platform unser OS X.

Joel is basicly on target, about Platforms. One component that also affects platform use is marketing, if not then OpenSource platforms would always win.

Everybody pays it except the developer — when you’re writing software for Windows, it doesn’t cost one extra cent.

Well not one extra cent other than the $1,000+ for the Visual X. The Apple case has defiantely changed, dev tools free for all on the platform unser OS X.

Totally awesome software?

Beck downplays the argument that XP is an all-or-nothing approach. Still, he does note that the project leaders who report the most success with the methodology tend to be the ones who put aside the cultural obsession with rigid specs, an obsession inherited from less flexible fields such as civil and mechanical engineering, and approach XP’s design-on-the-fly philosophy wholeheartedly.

Totally awesome software?

Beck downplays the argument that XP is an all-or-nothing approach. Still, he does note that the project leaders who report the most success with the methodology tend to be the ones who put aside the cultural obsession with rigid specs, an obsession inherited from less flexible fields such as civil and mechanical engineering, and approach XP’s design-on-the-fly philosophy wholeheartedly.