http://www.ideanest.com/blog/ en-ca Nucleus CMS v3.22 Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.ideanest.com/blog/1-logo http://www.ideanest.com/blog/ http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/35 I recently rescued a very insightful comment by Adrian Buehlmann to my original Morning After entry from the (generally effective, but in this case dreadfully inaccurate) comment spam filter. Adrian takes issue with Reef's fundamental principle o... Software Engineering http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/35#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:22:36 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/34 This is the most influential paper award presentation. Michael Jackson (from the panel) is rehashing some of the same points re: normal vs. radical design. From what I understood, normal design is based on experience and doesn't deviate too far ... General http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/34#comments Fri, 20 May 2005 14:59:17 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/33 The Evolution of Development at Microsoft This talk flowed so well, I didn't want to be distracted with taking down details during the presentation. The basic premise was that Microsoft used to hack things up quickly because that's what the envir... Software Engineering http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/33#comments Fri, 20 May 2005 14:25:28 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/31 What a contrast to Erich's talk... The speaker is apparently a marketing guy serving a warmed-over business presentation with generous servings of rethoric and argument by assertion ("you know it's true!"). His argument boils down to: naughty d... Software Engineering http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/31#comments Fri, 20 May 2005 10:46:04 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/32 This speaker promises to explain how his organization migrated from a plan-driven (waterfall) development process to an agile one. He starts out by defining plan-driven and agile processes, including a good analogy: plan driven is like building a... Software Engineering http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/32#comments Fri, 20 May 2005 10:28:24 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/30 Erich will be talking about agile, open source, distributed and on-time (and buzzword-compliant, apparently): inside the Eclipse development process. Unfortunately, his accent is difficult to understand over the microphone, and the font on his sl... Software Engineering http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/30#comments Fri, 20 May 2005 08:23:59 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/28 This is a long and rambling entry -- panels are very difficult to summarize, especially live, on the spot. Feel free to ignore this item, there's nothing groundbreaking in here. There's 3 panelists, and they gave 3 very different position stateme... Software Engineering http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/28#comments Thu, 19 May 2005 16:30:33 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/29 This morning, after watching the rather good Lewis & Clark movie at the arch, I came back to get an informal demo of the Continuous Testing plugin for Eclipse. The concept is really simple: it does for JUnit tests what the Eclipse compiler did f... Java http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/29#comments Thu, 19 May 2005 16:19:11 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/27 I'm in an invited talks session with a very generic title. The invited talks get the biggest room at the conference, and seem to be well attended. Usability in Open Source Thesis: open source deals well with functionality challenges (by distrib... Software Engineering http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/27#comments Thu, 19 May 2005 14:12:22 -0600 http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/26 I stopped by for an informal demo of Ossher's Concern Manipulation Environment. Ossher started off the whole aspect movement before he got eclipsed by AspectJ. He's still working on HyperJ and CME. I think his ideas are more general and powerfu... Software Engineering http://www.ideanest.com/blog/item/26#comments Thu, 19 May 2005 12:14:28 -0600