Zainco is currently evaluating NoSQL approaches for a groundbreaking application we are developing for a security client. At present Raven is looking very promising.
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30 sprints later…
I have spent the best part of the last 1 year on a large project with many cross functional teams building a .NET application that integrates with a specialised vendor ERP system. As with any experience, you learn a great deal about yourself and others.
My greatest lesson is that there is a lot of crap software out there making lots of money and that good software (read this as open source) rarely, if ever, makes money.
With the crap software come the zealots and snake oil salesmen selling their bogus cures and panaceas .
If ever I had to express this in mathematical terms, I would say that:
The rate of return on investment on a software asset is inversely proportional to the quality of the code deployed.
This appears to tie with the empirical data, but as with any such observations, outliers or exceptions will exist.
I suppose our challenge as software craftsmen is to ensure that quality and ROI is balanced.
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3.10.09
Eurotunnel...
The hiatus is over; in death is renewal and the realisation that we are indeed mortal.
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Anyway back to the subject of this blog, software.
At present we face a number of software engineering challenges amongst these is the centralisation of field application logs(FAL). SaaS appears to be a natural solution to this problem. The service interface would ideally accept a log message and persist this for later consumption by development and support staff.
21.8.09
19.8.09
Some thoughts on home grown code gen
The context: I have some xml that needs to be converted to C# class files. The xml is attribute-centric.
Possible implementation: transform using xslt, tokenize xml and use tokens to populate template; use Codedom ap; use code gen tool
Preferred option: CodeDom/Tokenization strategy
Applying Scrum in a non-software development context
My experience of agile project management is confined to the field of software development, but as luck would have it, I have an opportunity to apply agile in an industry sector where brawn comes before brains. Well that's not entirely correct, but I guess this domain thrives on a command control type structure. I will definitely need to adapt the methodology to take into account the cultural differences afterall we are dealing with complex adaptive systems...ahem
Oh so this is SAP
Recently started working with SAP as a data model for our .NET UI. All very exciting at the moment. Objects are modelled using a tool and each instance of an object is stored in a construct called a table. Associations and aggregations are aslo modelled using the tool. As someone once said "it's dejavu all over again". Based on these observations, I posit that SAP development exemplifies DDD. The ubiquitous language is developed as the model is formulated, dependencies amongst objects are also modelled accordingly. What I am yet to encounter is the notion of value objects. Entities are an intrinsic part of object definition. Blogged from me Android...
That's your spec sir...my first foray into the world of haptics
What we have here is a meal planner structure which can be digitised and form a module in our Home Information Management System(HIMS). In this era of the Smart Meter and the Media Center, there is definitely a place for HIMS.
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