S.Lott-Software Architect

Apple's Time Capsule rocks. For a while the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) -- with a disk added -- would do the same thing. You go...

Context: We're reverse engineering some bad VB application code. What I saw. " This problem report pushed this module over the 64k ...

I have very mixed feelings about XML's usability. An avowed goal of the inventors of XML was "XML documents should be human-legible...

I've cataloged a third specific case of fundamental failures to understand polymorphism. The first two I've seen a fair number of t...

Two months ago, we looked at some Data Warehouse design information. It looked like 8 months of work. It might be finished by year-end. Fa...

It's easy to prevent successful use case analysis: make it into an exercise of defining lots of "processes" in excruciating de...

I've run in to some Agility questions recently.  Questions that indicate that some people just don't like the Inversion of Control a...