September 29th, 2006
Chapter 6 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. This chapter discusses major issues in systems development, and while it was updated in 2000, it definitely needs another round of updating. I’ll plan to look at this chapter more carefully in the coming [...]
September 27th, 2006
I took a relatively uneventful Northwest Airlines flight from New York to Minneapolis this afternoon, and was delighted to find that (unlike most flights these days), it was only half full. Lots of empty aisle seats, and even a few empty window seats. Nevertheless, the automated “kiosk” check-in system at LaGuardia assigned me a middle [...]
September 27th, 2006
Chapter 5 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. This chapter discusses the “project life cycle,” and while it was updated in 2000 to include some references to XP and agile methods, it definitely needs another round of updating. I’ll plan to look [...]
September 27th, 2006
Chapters 3 and 4 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. As mentioned previously, I’ll probably continue moving forward through the remaining chapters, at an average rate of a chapter a day. It will probably take another few weeks to upload all of [...]
September 25th, 2006
Chapter 2 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. As mentioned previously, I’ll probably continue moving forward through the remaining chapters, at an average rate of a chapter a day. It will probably take another few weeks to upload all of the material [...]
September 25th, 2006
I’ve always wondered what I would do if I couldn’t find any legitimate work in the computer field. Now I know: according to a recent article, “9 Iranian weightlifters fail doping test,” all I have to do is (a) call my long-lost relative Yourdon Georgy Ivanov, (b) apply for Bulgarian citizenship, and (c) move to [...]
September 22nd, 2006
Time flies when you’re having fun: it’s been two days since I returned from a Web 2.0 conference — officially titled the “New New Internet” to avoid the wrath of Tim O’Reilly — in the Washington, DC area. Someone named Ken Yarmosh posted nearly a dozen blog entries through the day, summarizing the presentations of [...]
September 22nd, 2006
Chapter 1 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. I’ll probably continue moving forward through the remaining chapters, at an average rate of a chapter a day. It will probably take another few weeks to upload all of the material from the HTML-based [...]
September 21st, 2006
In a flurry of activity, we’ve added four more chapters of material to the Structured Analysis wiki that we launched a day or two ago. In addition to the chapter on dataflow diagrams (which, for most of this year, has been the second most popular page on my website!), we’ve now got the following additional [...]
September 21st, 2006
I’ll be presenting a live “Webinar” for the Cutter Consortium, on the subject of IT-related litigation risks. For more details, click here.
