Monthly Archives: May 2012

Causality

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Why am I posting this?   http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/LECTURE/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl Advertisements

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Technical Debt

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

All too familiar http://mags.acm.org/communications/201205/?CFID=103724481&CFTOKEN=53228316#pg52 http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html

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hmmph

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

Cloudy Outlook

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Reminder re Defective Software

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

Catching up.  The January 2012 CACM (Vol 25, No 1) page 15 article (Bertrand Meyer) reminds us of Defective Software –the Therac-25 issue in particular .   Good Important CS reading. http://www.bowdoin.edu/~allen/courses/cs260/readings/therac.pdf

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ACM

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

As an undergrad at McMaster in 1984, I was inspired by journals such as the Communications of the ACM. In particular, the articles about aspects of the Space Shuttle Software System -design and testing – come to mind. I’ve recently … Continue reading →

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ASP.Net related training and more (today’s reading)

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

but keep an eye open for ASP.Net Web API –more open/standard, versus WCF ; they refer to pain I have shared re WCF config files, attributes over code, but non-trivial nevertheless MVC3  Asynch mashups (ASP.Net 4 (VS2010) or 4.5 (VS2011 … Continue reading →

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