eworks :: software + engineering + management

allow time for new tools

"If you're looking at adopting a new compiler, new IDEs, new project management practices, and so on, realize that it will take some time." Andy Hunt

self-publish

"But for those who may not know, having recently published my first book, I have been contemplating a different path for my next book which is to completely produce the title on my own!" Sebastien St-Laurent

"I am not interested in publishing a book simply because of the amount of time and effort it would take I would have to put all my sites on hold." Paul Scrivens

upgrade to solaris 10

" And gives you an opportunity to run all your existing Solaris apps and all your linux apps unmodified, get logical partitioning (driving massive utilization improvements), fault management and extreme performance improvements - for less than the price of "free"." Jonathan Schwartz

decide about normalization

"Cal presents normalization as a trade-off that, depending on your circumstances, might be worth looking at...which is a much more useful way of approaching the situation than what I've typically heard (normalize or die!)." Jason Kottke

multi-process

'"We are beginning to see the slow death of instruction-set architectures," said Frantz, with the rise of "heterogeneous multiprocessing"-that is, the use of cores optimized for their particular tasks, be it a DSP, an MCU or a hardwired circuit for a specialized job.' David Lammers

find a topical blog

'Frequently I am asked by marketers, "How do I find the blogs that are writing about X?" ' Steve Rubel

do inbound product management

"And when a customer says to you "I really wish your product did this", you need to be able to prioritize their feature request not only based on the impact to your desired customer segment, but also in terms of feasibility and technical resources that would need to be devoted, how well the feature would work with your platform and integrate with other product features." Heather Leigh

use the sales learning curve

"Rather than starting with a large sales force, a company using the SLC is better served by hiring a small team of sales execs with the analytical skills and patience to lead the company through an iterative learning process that includes the continuous discovery and solution of small but crucial problems." Mark Leslie

develop frameworks to boost language adoption

"It’s generating some buzz—I think Rails may well be the framework to break Ruby into the mainstream." Dave Thomas

use a domain-specific language

"We then define a language for the domain and build tools that support the language, such as editors, compilers and debuggers, to automate the assembly process." Jack Greenfield and Keith Short

"As witnessed by the very slow take-up of C#, one may design a solid language but then you have to support that language, provide sites/papers/books/courses to help people become fluent in it, and in general build up a community of interest and a community of practice." Grady Booch

"The point of my post is that given a lanaguage with mechanisms for syntactic extension, making a new native type is no big deal, where in other languages you end up having to hack the parser, and possibly the rest of the compiler." Ted Leung

"But VB shows us that you can achieve large productivity gains while solving new and interesting problems even in broad scope problem domains." Harry Pierson

"In other words, Booch's argument against DSL's falls apart if we don't have common semantics across all phases of the system's lifecycle." Harry Pierson