Design is Not Functional Decomposition

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Thomas Drakengren

Nick Malik writes about the common misconception about design, that you just have to follow a well-defined process to break down a problem in its constituents, and voila, you’ve got the design! No way it’s that easy. That’s an easy trap for those people who excel in model driven development, I think.

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Syncing Solution was Unstable

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Thomas Drakengren

In a previous post, I suggested that I’ve found a syncing solution that works for syncing tasks, calendar and contacts involving a PDA, a work computer and a home computer, so that I can filter out what items are synced to my work computer, while all items exist on my PDA and home computer. Unfortunately, [...]

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More On Google Chrome Responsiveness

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Thomas Drakengren

The Chromium Blog has published more stuff on how to get the Google Chrome GUI responsive. Very interesting to read! Today they’re discussing how plugins affect responsiveness.

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GUI Responsiveness in Google Chrome

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Thomas Drakengren

Over at the Chromium Blog, there’s a post about Google Chrome’s I/O principles. Finally an improvement in GUI responsiveness from the prevalent industry standard. What if Microsoft implemented this in their Office suite, too? I’ve always argued that GUIs should be responsive at all times, thus showing the state of the application, instead of just [...]

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Service vs. Function part II

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Thomas Drakengren

I just came up with a pretty good explanation of the difference between a service and a function, to clarify on a recent post. It kind of explains why it is difficult to reach an agreement, since people are discussing on different levels. So, watch this: Suppose that you’re a consultant, and you have a [...]

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A Software Development Q&A that Could Work

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Thomas Drakengren

Joel Spolsky has set up a new Software Development Q&A, called Stack Overflow, together with Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror. If you’re used to the common kinds of web forums that turn up when you have a programming question, you’ll like this one. It’s content is completely user driven (digg-like), so that good answers get [...]

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How to Agree on the Difference between a Service and a Function

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Thomas Drakengren

In this post, I’ll establish exactly what’s the difference between a service (SOA parlance) and a function. Just joking, no, I won’t. I participated in an animated discussion today about the topic, and the discussion just went on and on. The participants were very bright people, and everyone was right in some way. We just [...]

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