An old, well-known, and not particularly pleasant joke goes as follows: A Harvard man and a Yale man are at the urinal. They finish and zip up. The Harvard man goes to the sink to wash his hands, while the Yale man immediately heads for the exit. Mister Harvard says,…
The Fascination of Computer Programming
Much of my early fascination with computer programming arose from the ability to create tangible working things out of nothing much more than a few ideas. Mathematicians create new mathematical models and systems by applying logic and imagination to existing mathematical ideas. Generally, however, these imaginary systems only come to…
Old Stuff
This is a selection of old articles written over the last twenty years or so for various web sites and online forums. Mostly, the topics are either related to agile software development or to object-oriented analysis and design, but a few other software development topics pop up here and there…