"... Each new generation doomed to re-discover basics ..."
Got pinged by Ed Yourdon today checking if I had some of his books in photo of a bookshelf (I did, 'Structured Analysis'). And I come across this particular presentation on his website (http://www.yourdonreport.com). It's an interesting report because it takes a similiar approach Tim O'Reilly used to define Web 2. Analyse the current market and draw conclusions from them. [0] What I particularly like is the themes overlayed on a map with published book images used to support the problems.
One idea that immediately sticks in my mind as being a bit odd was the theme of code re-use. Programmers are notorious for perpetuating "Obsolete culture" in the hope that re-using code can save them time ignoring the possibility the code they are going to re-use is crap. [1]
Got pinged by Ed Yourdon today checking if I had some of his books in photo of a bookshelf (I did, 'Structured Analysis'). And I come across this particular presentation on his website (http://www.yourdonreport.com). It's an interesting report because it takes a similiar approach Tim O'Reilly used to define Web 2. Analyse the current market and draw conclusions from them. [0] What I particularly like is the themes overlayed on a map with published book images used to support the problems.
One idea that immediately sticks in my mind as being a bit odd was the theme of code re-use. Programmers are notorious for perpetuating "Obsolete culture" in the hope that re-using code can save them time ignoring the possibility the code they are going to re-use is crap. [1]
The presentation can be found here:
- google doc (requires permission, yuk) ~ http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dd2trp3s_42cwb9js&f...
- pdf (19Mb) ~http://www.yourdon.com/downloads/CompAidTopTenJAX.pdf
- bonus Interview (200Kb) ~ http://www.compaid.com/caiinternet/ezine/edyourdoninterview....
[0] Tim OReilly Web 2.0 definition, 'What is Web 2.0?' ~ http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/wha...
[1] Alan Cooper, Inmates running the Asylum, CH8 An Obsolete culture, Reusing code pp 106-109.