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By bfwebster on May 1, 2013 in Crime, Expert Testimony, Lawsuits, Main | 0 Comments
Cybercrime Review is one of the blogs I read daily, due to my ongoing interest in the intersection between law and technology. The posts generally have to do with court rulings and decisions in cases involving computer technology, such as whether someone can be compelled to provide a password for an encrypted data source. But [...]
By bfwebster on Nov 10, 2012 in Architecture, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Pitfalls, Quality assurance, Risk management, Software engineering | 0 Comments
Cross posted from And Still I Persist] [Note: I am currently in transit from Colorado to Florida and am composing this post as I have time and 'net access.] “All the most important mistakes are made on the first day.” – The Art of Systems Architecting (Maier & Rechtin) Project Orca was the Romney campaign’s [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 4, 2012 in IT Project Management, Main, RISE, Risk management, Software engineering | 0 Comments
[The second in a series of posts on Readings in Software Engineering. Previous post: The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg (1971/1998)] The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA, 1975. Softbound, 195 pages. Personal acquisition date: unknown. Original edition out of print. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays [...]
By bfwebster on May 21, 2012 in Books, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Recruiting, RISE, Software engineering | 1 Comment
[The first of a planned series of posts on "Readings in Software Engineering"] [Version 1.1 of this post, revised/extended on 05/22/2012] The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1971. Hardbound, 288 pages. Personal acquisition date: 17 Oct 1978. Original edition out of print. The Psychology of Computer Programming [...]
By bfwebster on May 21, 2012 in Books, IT Project Management, Main, RISE, Software engineering | 4 Comments
I have been collecting and reading books on software engineering since the 1970s, but I have found over the decades that the vast majority of programmers (and their managers) are unfamiliar with most of them. More’s the pity, for during the 38 years since I first started working in information technology (BYU Translation Sciences Institute, [...]