Archive for the ‘software’ Category
James McGovern came up with a good starter for 10, but since he called me out to add some more here goes: Ignoring Pareto – many enterprise architects end up becoming the creators of internal ‘standards’, and then become the standards cops. All too often the 80:20 rule is ignored (and in fact this tends to […]
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Tags: antipatterns, architecture, pareto, patterns, scalability, software
Why do they never learn?
They in this case are the machines that we use every day, or more specifically the software running on them. By using language like ‘they’ perhaps I’m already using a person like metaphor that’s inappropriate to the situation. Regardless, we’re confronted each day by machines that make us do repetitive tasks rather than taking them […]
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Tags: browser, greasemonkey, machine learning, mobile, platypus, scripting
The Myth of Software Support
I’ve been too quiet of late, and part of the problem has been this blog post, which has become something of a mental bolus. It’s time to get it out. The title really says it all. It’s my assertion that software support, or at least big company support for enterprise customers, is a myth. Not […]
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