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Comment on Software Engineering vs. Engineering by Siddhartha Suripunj

Siddhartha Suripunj — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:52:56 +0000

We should compare Software Engineering is more closer to Mechanical than
Civil Engineering.

Comment on Is Microsoft now the "underdog"? by Speed Up Vista

Speed Up Vista — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:14:32 +0000

Very well written post however, I would recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section.

Keep up the good work.

Comment on Undo/Redo & a Response to Robert Scoble by The Marketing Technology Blog

The Marketing Technology Blog — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:19:12 +0000

What Are We Missing? Or Who’s Missing Us?…

Robert Scoble asks, What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business!
The post hit a nerve with me. Robert is absolutely right!
As I read my RSS feeds on a daily basis, I’m tired of the same crap over and over again. Are Microsoft and Yahoo! t…

Comment on Undo/Redo & a Response to Robert Scoble by The Marketing Technology Blog

The Marketing Technology Blog — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:19:12 +0000

What Are We Missing? Or Who’s Missing Us?…

Comment on Testing Graphsy with Selenium by bitbutter

bitbutter — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:03:23 +0000

Thanks for this. I’ve been looking for concrete examples of selenium tests in rails, these are perfect. This looks very powerful.

Comment on Does everyone need to learn how to write code? by cyrille martraire

cyrille martraire — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:18:00 +0000

I share your view, and I appreciate a lot the examples you provide.

In the medium term, knowing an easy programming language (something like Office macros, Python or ActionScript) will be increasingly common for many kinds of jobs (I have witnessed that trend in the finance world already, where traders and other people on the business side often know some C++ with smart pointers…), because the productivity advantage of being able to automate its job is so huge.

And in the long term, as you envision, zero-code programming will of course win. There will still be a need for “hardcore” developers, just like there is still a need for some developers to create and maintain operating systems.

In practice this evolution might not be that easy to see, and for instance there is already a huge number of people tagged as “developers” that are actually doing business tasks, think about the SAP consultants.

You mention DSL’s, and most Java/.Net API’s available can be considered as DSL’s expressed with the Object Oriented constructs; I am very curious to see how tools could enable non-technical people to combine arbitrary API’s together to build mashup applications.

Comment on Does everyone need to learn how to write code? by Paul E Davis

Paul E Davis — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:33:19 +0000

The problem with creating development environments for non-programmers is that it never really works. It takes a certain type of thinking to become a programmer.

For example, COBOL was designed so business people instead of programmers could build apps. Instead it just created a new class of programmers.
http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/BusinessReadableDSL.html
The design of VisualBasic had similar intentions.

There are very few areas where it really works (like Spreadsheets mentioned in the Fowler article).

Perhaps one day, we’ll have components that can be put together like legos to create a program but, then again, some people are a lot better wtih legos than most too

Comment on Software Engineering vs. Engineering by Pennie Jimenez

Pennie Jimenez — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:27:57 +0000

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Comment on Graphsy Gets Animated by Shams Mahmood

Shams Mahmood — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:39:20 +0000

Wonderful, really liked what you’ve done. I think it’ll be really useful to present animations of algorithms. Look forward to using it.

Comment on Post from an iPhone by mwkuiper

mwkuiper — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:13:28 +0000

Good blog