I’m not a native Californian, but my mom is, all four of my sisters are, two of my own children are, and frankly most of my extended family (on the Webster side) is. San Diego is pretty much the Webster home town, and I’ve lived in California a grand total of roughly 25 years, or [...]
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The Honorable Gregory R. Todd corrects a thief’s spelling and then gives him a dose of his own medicine. Hat tip to the Volokh Conspiracy. ..bruce..
I was walking through Wal-Mart yesterday and walked past a display containing this: Stop and think: what does it say when you give your father a Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker set for Father’s Day? “Dad, you are the genocidal embodiment of evil, but I will eventually redeem you”? “Dad, you tortured my sister and cut my [...]
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I’m finishing up an expert report for a patent case that I’m working on, so I haven’t been able to push forward with PMSE. However, I am posting a PDF of Chapter 2 from the original Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development (M&T Books, 1995). This should be useful for those of you interested in contributing to [...]
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Today’s [i.e., Sunday's] Dilbert strip. You may go back to your normal activities now. ..bruce..
While waiting for feedback on the web-based and PDF versions of The Art of ‘Ware, I have started work on Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering (or, as I call it, PMSE or ‘pimsee’). I have done a first (and very preliminary draft) of the introduction to PMSE. My next step will be to take the [...]
Teenagers don’t think: Her analysis included research she conducted with ISU colleagues on more than 10,000 youths from across the country regarding such things as smoking, use of alcohol and/or drugs, or practicing unsafe sex. She’s found that one of the biggest reasons teens are so hard to figure out is because there is an [...]
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Due to multiple requests, I have taken the current draft of The Art of ‘Ware [version 2.0] and made it into a PDF file (573 KB, 104 pages), which you can now download, distribute, print, and so on. As I explain in the document itself: In making this draft version available, I retain my copyright [...]
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