Category Archives: Software

Reuse As The Holy Grail

Udi Dahan writes about the fallacy of reuse. I couldn’t agree more. In my previous job, reuse was a selling point to our clients. We promised that building the current system will produce components that will help build the next system at a lower cost. A noble goal. Here’s what happened: we spent a lot

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On Passion

Scott Hanselman is moving to Microsoft. I’ve been following Scott’s blog and podcast “Hanselminutes” over the last year. I wish him luck, and that we all benefit from his new position. Scott describes himself as a geek. When he saw a CD, he wanted to see how it works (a quote from the last podcast

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Dean Wampler, one of the ever great ObjectMentor team, writes about the need to incorporate multiple development languages into a project. I agree with most of the things he said. It is important to choose the correct tool for the correct job. In our projects we have C#, C++, VB (6), SQL, HTML and VB

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