Programming Advocacy
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They Write the Right Stuff
What it means in reality to be an SEI CMM level 5
software shop.
I hope this one stays online for a very long time; the
comments in response to the article, both pro and con,
from site members, are as valuable as the article
itself.
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Dennis Yelle homepage
Chaos demo, C/C++ links, Java advocacy, "Small Linux"
link, number factoring widget!
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C R Y P T O N O M I C O N
In the Beginning was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson
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Operating systems, how we got where we are, where we are likely to be going.
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The Magic Cauldron
By famous and controversial Eric Raymond, author also
of The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
"This paper analyzes the economics of open-source
software.
It includes some explosion of common myths about software
production economics, a game-theoretical account of why
open-source cooperation is stable, and a taxonomy of
open-source business models."
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How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Tragic and hilarious at one and the same time.
Counting how many real world instances exactly as
described are in the current piece of code you are
maintaining can be a nice way to while away another
long test run to find a nearly irreproducible bug
hidden by use of one of these techniques.
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FEED: Open Source Software Special Article: Under
the Hood
Several related articles about Open Source software in
a theme issue of this online eZine.
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Essays on Systems Effectiveness Management
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SEM
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collected by Jerry Weinberg, who teaches about software process.
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was last updated
20030504.
