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At the recent Gartner Emerging Trends and Technologies Roadshow in Melbourne, Gartner identified the Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012. This intriguing list is a compelling argument for IT professionals to revisit their plans for future application development. Gone are the ways of heavy, expensive do it all applications. By utilizing on-demand software and mashups you can create robust applications in days instead of months. For organizations that prefer to keep their applications in house, more powerful multicore and hybrid processors powering virtual hardware will allow you to reduce downtime and better utilize resources.
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Two of my all time favorite authors, Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, coined the phrase, ”Code [your project] as if the next guy to maintain it is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.” I truly wish more people would take that to heart. All too often I am working on a maintenance task, and I find that I spend more time trying to figure out what the hell the code is doing than I spend actually fixing the bug.
Take, for instance, the following real code snippet that a colleague of mine recently sent me…
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SD West, one of the nation’s premier software development conventions, just concluded SD West 2008. Yours truly was fortunate enough to be able to attend, and for an entire fun filled week I got to embrace my inner geek and participate in tutorials on Agile Estimating and Planning, attend classes on Test Driven Development, and visit expo booths to play Guitar Hero (Hey - we may be developers, but we’re aren’t total nerds!). I even managed to go on a Segway Tour of San Francisco. OK, that last one was a little nerdy, but still pretty fun!
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In 1993, the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University published a study named A Study in Software Maintenance. As part of this study, one task was to examine the development processes and the software tools used within maintenance (life-cycle support) projects. Three pervasive themes presented themselves in the findings: Tools, People, and Software Process.
This is the first in a three part blog to compare the findings of that 1993 paper with the general climate of software maintenance today. The first area of findings that we will look at is the area of Tools.
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While this is a little off from my usual topic of Software Reliability and Maintainability, it was still too interesting not to blog about. Big name internet marketers Ted Murphy of Izea and Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney are putting on a contest to determine the next Shoeperstar Winner. To win, bloggers have to, well, blog about why they think they should be the Shoeperstar. It presents a very interesting example of the power of viral marketing and SEO. All of the blog entries will undoubtedly link back to both Izea and ShoeMoney, further bolstering there already impressive SEO rankings.
Former Sundogger and rising blogosphere star Max Pool of Code Squeeze has thrown his name into the ring with his entry, 10 Reasons Why I Am A Shoeperstar Contest Winner.
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