The other day a software project that I had spent a year on was “put on the shelf.” A year of effort was unceremoniously flushed down the software sewer. A number of colleagues asked me, “How do you feel about this?” Would you believe relieved? This is not false bravado or stupid sunny optimism. I … Continue reading Cutting the Stinking Tauntaun and other Adventures in Software Archeology
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JHS meets MathJax
With the release of J 7.01 Jsoftware "deprecated" COM. J 6.02 can run as a COM automation server but J 7.01 cannot.3 Throwing COM under the bus is hardly radical. Microsoft, COM's creator, has been holding COM's head underwater for years. Many .Net programmers cringe when they hear the word "COM" and the greater nonwindows1 … Continue reading JHS meets MathJax
The Real Problem with Enterprise Software
Only the gifted analytic minds of IT management and know it all programmers have the intelligence work ethic and superb taste required to select enterprise software. Speaking as an ITite, (one who works in IT), I can report that we are so gifted, so far-seeing, so utterly and totally awesome in our views that only … Continue reading The Real Problem with Enterprise Software