John Gall apparently said:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with …read more
There are comments.
Just a short note with characteristic inhumility (ahumility? abhumility?) -- for my Concepts in Database-Backed Web Programming course, I received the Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence from the students.
This means a lot to me, because I spent a huge amount of time on that course (and will have to do …
read moreThere are comments.
'tis the season, and so it's time for me to post my list of accumulated project ideas. I'll transfer these over to the wiki tomorrow, after I track down some references. I'm willing to mentor any or many of these but I'd prefer to find someone to be the primary …
read moreThere are comments.
I recently had the pleasure of being the technical reviewer for a new Apress offering, Beginning Python Visualization, by Shai Vaingast.
To quote from the apress page,
read moreWhat you'll learn:
- Write ten lines of code and present visual information instead of data soup.
- Set up an open source environment ready …
There are comments.
My last post, Good code coverage: Necessity vs Sufficiency, about how you should maintain high code coverage with your automated tests, seems to have really struck a nerve in a small group of people -- I got some fantastic comments, with some great pointers. Michael Foord's comment, 'Too often "testing is …
read moreThere are comments.