http://erngui.com/misc Short pieces written by Ernesto Guisado en-us 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. http://erngui.com/misc/starting-win-app.html http://erngui.com/misc/starting-win-app.html 2007-03-29T17:39:33+00:00 A quick introduction to the CrossFit fitness system http://erngui.com/misc/crossfit.html http://erngui.com/misc/crossfit.html 2007-03-04T17:13:49+00:00 Jam is a multi-platform build tool created by Perforce http://erngui.com/misc/jam.html http://erngui.com/misc/jam.html 2007-02-26T14:59:36+00:00 Some resources related to the Win32::GuiTest Perl module http://erngui.com/misc/guitest.html http://erngui.com/misc/guitest.html 2007-02-22T10:36:43+00:00 NASA thinks (wrongly?) that UML can help them improve quality http://erngui.com/misc/nasa-mandates-uml.html http://erngui.com/misc/nasa-mandates-uml.html 2007-02-08T13:01:28+00:00 Ranum runs Fortify on his 1994 Firewall Toolkit (FWTK) and tells about it http://erngui.com/misc/ranum.html http://erngui.com/misc/ranum.html 2007-01-25T17:44:00+00:00 Reviewers are really talking about themselves, not the book http://erngui.com/misc/review-tips.html http://erngui.com/misc/review-tips.html 2007-01-22T17:37:00+00:00 Fitness gurus agree on HIIT effectiveness http://erngui.com/misc/hiit.html http://erngui.com/misc/hiit.html 2007-01-19T12:45:00+00:00 How fast should we respond to email? http://erngui.com/misc/e-mail-priorities.html http://erngui.com/misc/e-mail-priorities.html 2006-06-05T09:39:56+00:00 Yes, please and fix defects too! http://erngui.com/misc/should-architects-code-.html http://erngui.com/misc/should-architects-code-.html 2006-05-17T10:33:00+00:00 Defect severity is more important than probability of occurence http://erngui.com/misc/software-failures-are-systematic-not-random.html http://erngui.com/misc/software-failures-are-systematic-not-random.html 2006-05-15T11:14:00+00:00 I'm creating a small C# productivity app to learn about it http://erngui.com/misc/playing-with-c.html http://erngui.com/misc/playing-with-c.html 2006-04-28T14:40:57+00:00 Classification used in Michael Lyu's book http://erngui.com/misc/more-defect-severities.html http://erngui.com/misc/more-defect-severities.html 2006-04-27T15:02:30+00:00 A good book in the tradition of "How to Lie with Statistics" and "Innumeracy" http://erngui.com/misc/freakonomics.html http://erngui.com/misc/freakonomics.html 2006-04-21T11:24:00+00:00 Is structured text a valid alternative to HTML? http://erngui.com/misc/text-vs-html.html http://erngui.com/misc/text-vs-html.html 2006-03-28T15:08:00+00:00 Classification used by Bugzilla developers http://erngui.com/misc/bugzilla.html http://erngui.com/misc/bugzilla.html 2005-10-01T16:47:00+00:00 Classification used by developers of Subversion http://erngui.com/misc/svnbugs.html http://erngui.com/misc/svnbugs.html 2005-10-01T14:25:00+00:00 Classification used by Debian package developers http://erngui.com/misc/debianbugs.html http://erngui.com/misc/debianbugs.html 2005-10-01T12:02:00+00:00 Weissman's five cardinal sins in a presentation http://erngui.com/misc/presentation.html http://erngui.com/misc/presentation.html 2005-09-30T17:16:00+00:00 What does a software architect do? http://erngui.com/misc/architect.html http://erngui.com/misc/architect.html 2005-07-29T10:13:20+00:00 http://erngui.com/misc/startup.html http://erngui.com/misc/startup.html 2005-07-26T16:50:11+00:00 I like the way decisions are de-centralized. http://erngui.com/misc/eclipse-development-process.html http://erngui.com/misc/eclipse-development-process.html 2005-06-21T13:33:00+00:00 http://erngui.com/misc/software-reliability-engineering.html http://erngui.com/misc/software-reliability-engineering.html 2005-03-31T13:03:00+00:00 Severity is technical, priority is political http://erngui.com/misc/bug-severity.html http://erngui.com/misc/bug-severity.html 2005-03-14T14:08:00+00:00 http://erngui.com/misc/jim-mccarthy.html http://erngui.com/misc/jim-mccarthy.html 2005-03-14T00:32:00+00:00 http://erngui.com/misc/theory-of-constraints.html http://erngui.com/misc/theory-of-constraints.html 2005-03-14T00:22:00+00:00 Some more food for thought from Reinertsen’s “Managing The Design Factory” http://erngui.com/misc/more-design-factory.html http://erngui.com/misc/more-design-factory.html 2005-03-13T23:50:00+00:00 Review of Donald Reinertsen’s “Managing The Design Factory” http://erngui.com/misc/design-factory.html http://erngui.com/misc/design-factory.html 2005-03-13T20:36:00+00:00 Toyota Production System (Just In Time Manufacturing) applied to software http://erngui.com/misc/poppendieck.html http://erngui.com/misc/poppendieck.html 2005-03-06T23:40:00+00:00 Turning web pages into interactive text with some browser magic http://erngui.com/misc/liquid-information.html http://erngui.com/misc/liquid-information.html 2005-02-28T18:10:56+00:00 Using bookmarklets to enhance weblogging. http://erngui.com/misc/bookmarklets.html http://erngui.com/misc/bookmarklets.html 2005-02-26T00:19:00+00:00 Interested in usability? Read Jakob Nielsen’s work http://erngui.com/misc/nielsen.html http://erngui.com/misc/nielsen.html 2005-02-25T17:23:00+00:00 Measuring code coverage seems like a fool-proof way of evaluating the quality of your tests http://erngui.com/misc/code-coverage.html http://erngui.com/misc/code-coverage.html 2005-02-24T16:15:00+00:00 Be careful with metrics. You might get what you ask for http://erngui.com/misc/you-are-what-you-measure.html http://erngui.com/misc/you-are-what-you-measure.html 2005-02-24T13:31:00+00:00 Rules of thumb to decide on using tags vs attributes http://erngui.com/misc/tags-vs-attributes.html http://erngui.com/misc/tags-vs-attributes.html 2005-02-24T11:07:00+00:00 The perfect reference book to have by your desk while you’re writing the next science fiction bestseller http://erngui.com/misc/the-scientific-companion.html http://erngui.com/misc/the-scientific-companion.html 2005-02-22T16:07:00+00:00 Groupware to help users get laid http://erngui.com/misc/groupware-considered-harmful.html http://erngui.com/misc/groupware-considered-harmful.html 2005-02-22T15:48:00+00:00 Random thoughts about software design http://erngui.com/misc/software-design.html http://erngui.com/misc/software-design.html 2005-02-14T16:35:00+00:00 http://erngui.com/misc/on-line-learning.html http://erngui.com/misc/on-line-learning.html 2005-02-14T16:27:00+00:00 The heartbeat of the project (according to Jim McCarthy) http://erngui.com/misc/daily-build.html http://erngui.com/misc/daily-build.html 2005-02-14T16:09:00+00:00 Some resources that helped me learn how to manage my time http://erngui.com/misc/time-management.html http://erngui.com/misc/time-management.html 2005-02-14T13:45:00+00:00 Compose the desktop by compositing together separate graphical windows http://erngui.com/misc/compositing.html http://erngui.com/misc/compositing.html 2005-02-14T13:29:00+00:00 You can’t always get what you want, But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need http://erngui.com/misc/pink-chairs.html http://erngui.com/misc/pink-chairs.html 2005-02-10T18:34:00+00:00 My list of issues with estimation of software effort, costs and schedules. http://erngui.com/misc/estimation.html http://erngui.com/misc/estimation.html 2005-01-27T13:06:29+00:00 http://erngui.com/misc/waltzing-with-bears.html http://erngui.com/misc/waltzing-with-bears.html 2005-01-27T13:05:00+00:00 http://erngui.com/misc/dijkstra-on-testing.html http://erngui.com/misc/dijkstra-on-testing.html 2004-11-29T20:54:03+00:00 In February I attended a short course on Design by Tom Gilb http://erngui.com/misc/competitive-engineering.html http://erngui.com/misc/competitive-engineering.html 2004-11-27T16:00:00+00:00 Don’t bother with C++ exception specifications http://erngui.com/misc/cpp-exception-specs.html http://erngui.com/misc/cpp-exception-specs.html 2004-11-24T00:50:00+00:00 http://erngui.com/misc/gilb.html http://erngui.com/misc/gilb.html 2004-11-22T12:03:00+00:00