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December 16, 2008
UML redefined
True, a picture says more than thousand words. Yet UML is not a picture but graphically arranged text. -- Daniel Tobler (Zühlke LAT) follow me on twitter, I need some friends :-)
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December 15, 2008
The root of all evil ...
For years Donald Knuths famous quote was standing: Premature optimization is the root of all evil But in his recent blog-post Adam Bien is taking it up with Donald Knuth: Premature encapsulation is the root of all evil In his sweeping pos...
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November 27, 2008
New family member again!
It has been less than 9 month since the last happy event, but my family has received a new member again: Unfortunately it has been a bit of a premature delivery ... it will take another two month before it will be allowed to go outside ... ...
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November 27, 2008
Musing about Code Generation, MDSD and DSLs
Disclaimer: I am a developer of business applications. The following view is certainly shaped by my experiences in trenches of enterprise IT. I am aware, that there are other domains of software development. Especially in industrial and/or embedde...
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November 22, 2008
Some requirements are different...
Last week I was at a requirement engineering course. One thing that stuck was, the Kano model, which can be used to classify requirements: Depending on their category (excitement-, performance- or basic-attibutes) the corresponding requireme...
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