My new blog
Posted August 01, 2007 in NewsFinally decided to give Wordpress a try and since I’m working a bit on my Mac, thought I’d also try out Ecto…
The archive of my old blog will still be available, but I won’t update it.
Doing it by hand with Ruby, Textile and Yaml (a combination I stole from the great Hobix), gave me a certain satisfaction, but there you go… Times change…I rather spend my little extra time on other projects.
Here’s a list of links to the old postings:
Starting a windows application in the background
March 29, 2007
In a UNIX shell you can use ampersand (&) to tell the shell to run a command in the background. Here is how to do it in the Windows command shell.
March 04, 2007
A quick introduction to the CrossFit fitness system
February 26, 2007
Jam is a multi-platform build tool created by Perforce
February 22, 2007
Some resources related to the Win32::GuiTest Perl module
February 08, 2007
NASA thinks (wrongly?) that UML can help them improve quality
Marcus Ranum on static analysis
January 25, 2007
Ranum runs Fortify on his 1994 Firewall Toolkit (FWTK) and tells about it
January 22, 2007
Reviewers are really talking about themselves, not the book
High Intensity Interval training
January 19, 2007
Fitness gurus agree on HIIT effectiveness
June 05, 2006
How fast should we respond to email?
May 17, 2006
Yes, please and fix defects too!
Software failures are systematic, not random
May 15, 2006
Defect severity is more important than probability of occurence
April 28, 2006
I’m creating a small C# productivity app to learn about it
Defect severities, part 5 – Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering
April 27, 2006
Classification used in Michael Lyu’s book
April 21, 2006
A good book in the tradition of “How to Lie with Statistics” and “Innumeracy”
March 28, 2006
Is structured text a valid alternative to HTML?
Defect severities, part 4 – Bugzilla
October 01, 2005
Classification used by Bugzilla developers
Defect Severities, part 3 – Subversion
October 01, 2005
Classification used by developers of Subversion
Defect Severities, part 2 – Debian
October 01, 2005
Classification used by Debian package developers
Weissman on Presentation Skills (via Colwell)
September 30, 2005
Weissman’s five cardinal sins in a presentation
July 29, 2005
What does a software architect do?
July 26, 2005
June 21, 2005
I like the way decisions are de-centralized.
Software Reliability Engineering
March 31, 2005
Defect severities, part 1 – Severity versus Priority
March 14, 2005
Severity is technical, priority is political
March 14, 2005
March 14, 2005
March 14, 2005
Some more food for thought from Reinertsen’s “Managing The Design Factory”
March 13, 2005
Review of Donald Reinertsen’s “Managing The Design Factory”
March 07, 2005
Toyota Production System (Just In Time Manufacturing) applied to software
February 28, 2005
Turning web pages into interactive text with some browser magic
February 26, 2005
Using bookmarklets to enhance weblogging.
February 25, 2005
Interested in usability? Read Jakob Nielsen’s work
Code coverage considered harmful?
February 24, 2005
Measuring code coverage seems like a fool-proof way of evaluating the quality of your tests
February 24, 2005
Be careful with metrics. You might get what you ask for
February 24, 2005
Rules of thumb to decide on using tags vs attributes
February 22, 2005
The perfect reference book to have by your desk while you’re writing the next science fiction bestseller
February 22, 2005
Groupware to help users get laid
February 14, 2005
Random thoughts about software design
February 14, 2005
February 14, 2005
The heartbeat of the project (according to Jim McCarthy)
February 14, 2005
Some resources that helped me learn how to manage my time
February 14, 2005
Compose the desktop by compositing together separate graphical windows
Requirements, designs and pink chairs…
February 10, 2005
You can’t always get what you want, But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need
Estimation in Software Development
January 27, 2005
My list of issues with estimation of software effort, costs and schedules.
Top 5 risks according to Waltzing with Bears
January 27, 2005
November 29, 2004
Gilb’s Competitive Engineering
November 27, 2004
In February I attended a short course on Design by Tom Gilb
November 24, 2004
Don’t bother with C++ exception specifications
November 22, 2004