S.Lott-Software Architect

Recently, I had two very weird "meta" questions on the subject of OO design. They bother me because they imply that some Brother ...

I work with a CIO who calls the DBA's "The Data Cartel". They control the data. Working with some DBA's always seems to tu...

Folks like to say that there's a "Software Crisis". We can't build software quickly enough, cheaply enough or well enough...

I love hypothetical questions. Got a bunch recently. I guess it's the season for hypotheticals. These all seem to come from the "...

First, there are several tiers of mutability in requirements. These tiers define typical levels of change context of the problem, the proble...

See this story of King Cnut ruling the waves . The King Cnut School of Management is management by fiat. Declaring it so. PM: "When wi...

I made some fundamental changes to the text processing pipeline. I think I've corrected all of the typographical and production problem...