The recent Money Magazine issue has an article that lists the 50 best jobs in the US. The top job is something near and dear to my heart and soul - Software Engineer. To determine the top 50 best jobs, Money Magazine and Salary.com gave grades for stress, flexibility, creativity, and difficulty. The research also […]
Read the article from SDA Asia titled “Managing a Community of Resources: ALM Moves to the Front of Competitive Strategy”. In the online article, Eric Brooks details Application Lifecycle Management, Borland’s ALM product roadmap, and the work being done in this area by IBM and Microsoft.
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I was reading an article, on the Embedded Systems Design web site, titled “Big Code”. The author, Jack Ganssle, talks about the estimated number of lines of code (LOC) in the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista as being around 50 million. At a 5% bug rate, this would yield a total bug count of 2.5 million bugs. […]
A recent article on BusinessWeek Online, talks about development trends in the software industry that could also be used in the video game industry. One of the things mentioned in the opening of the article is the “mature development processes” that companies uses including CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration).
The six lessons learned are:
Switch from Wishful […]
Being a developer for more than 36 years and an employee of Borland for 20 years, I’ve ample time to think about and experience first hand the challenge, opportunity, and fun of the world of software development. In recent presentations I have talked about the evolution of software development, the changes that have taken place […]
I was driving over the hill to our Cupertino office this morning listening to the Morning Edition show on NPR radio. Seldom do I hear something about computer science or our industry. I was pleasantly surprised to hear a story about Donald Knuth and his series of books called “The Art of Computer Programming”. Knuth […]
Did you read the news about YAFSP (Yet Another Failed Software Project)? The FBI’s Virtual Case File project has joined the annals of the "Why Software Projects Fail". Quoting from the FBI web site, "Virtual Case File represents a dramatic change in the FBI’s record-keeping practices based on the transition from a paper-based environment to […]