Three for the Road
Went to a talk on Software Maintenance and End-of-Life. The one thing I want to try from that session is some of the metrics. He's suggests tracking whether CRs come from missing/incomplete/incorrect requirements, analyst error, coder error, etc., to try to predict how difficult maintenance will be in the future.
We went over to a talk by Ambient Devices. It was basically the same pitch they had at the booth: For simple data, push techniques (phone, pager, etc.) are too intrusive, and pull techniques (web search, newspaper) require too much effort. Ambient data delivery provides a certain level of elegance and simplicity.
Grabbed a turkey sandwich for lunch, then picked up a couple of books. One, called "Hacker's Delight", has all sorts of goodies to coax performance out of code and understand things like numerical representation. The other one is .NET Patterns, which is what it sounds like. Randy was in the booth, and I asked him where the StarTeam books were. He said maybe he could do a sabbatical to write one, maybe in Hawaii. Yeah, Borland would go for that, right?
The last talk was about using ANT and StarTeam to automate builds. Unfortunately, it was pretty deep on the Java side, so I didn't get as much out of it as I wanted. Ah well, my mind was pretty full anyway.
We went over to a talk by Ambient Devices. It was basically the same pitch they had at the booth: For simple data, push techniques (phone, pager, etc.) are too intrusive, and pull techniques (web search, newspaper) require too much effort. Ambient data delivery provides a certain level of elegance and simplicity.
Grabbed a turkey sandwich for lunch, then picked up a couple of books. One, called "Hacker's Delight", has all sorts of goodies to coax performance out of code and understand things like numerical representation. The other one is .NET Patterns, which is what it sounds like. Randy was in the booth, and I asked him where the StarTeam books were. He said maybe he could do a sabbatical to write one, maybe in Hawaii. Yeah, Borland would go for that, right?
The last talk was about using ANT and StarTeam to automate builds. Unfortunately, it was pretty deep on the Java side, so I didn't get as much out of it as I wanted. Ah well, my mind was pretty full anyway.
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