It’s Friday and it seems like my last few posts have been quite serious (complete with references even) so today I’m just going to mention a few Web sites that are useful for doing research on doing research, and mention an interesting research workflow.
Much has been written about process improvement in the software industry. The SEI has developed the CMM (now known as CMMI) for about twenty years, yet according to a survey of 2000 government and commercial organizations about 50% are still CMM Level 2 or lower [1]. This is not surprising considering estimates of project failures [...]
I was thinking about my claim that all development will move to the Mac when I realized that there is an obvious exception. The Artful Dodger. Why? In order to avoid responsibility, and reduce efficiency.
If I could only recommend one book that every software engineer must read it would NOT be The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, but to be fair I’m not sure what it would be. I will say that when you graduate with a B.S. in Computer Science your university should send you a copy [...]
As a method of rating different items that I post reviews for I will use beers. Basically, I’ll relate the quality or enjoyment of the item to the equivalent enjoyment in beers. The scale will go from -5 beers being something that was really unenjoyable or of very low quality, to 5 beers being something [...]
Scott Adams is a genius. His blog on specialness is right on target. My research centers on the use of machine learning to solve some software engineering problems. One of the first times I described a few of my ideas to another person I was told that they would not work because only humans can [...]
About a week ago I realized that all the searching I do as part of my research is very repetitive. Rather than spend time executing the searches and checking web pages and PDFs and articles to see if they contain any new information, I would be much better off refining my search. It would be [...]