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Tag Archives: software
What is Gerrit?
Gerrit is an open source code review tool that was name after a dutch software designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964). Gerrit is actually a fork of Rietveld, another review tool. Gerrit has been designed to integrated nicely with the GIT code … Continue reading
Life Logging
There are a growing number of people who are going out of their way to log every aspect of their daily lives. I first stumbled across this phenomena when I read “Total Recall” by Jim Gemmell and Roger Lueder. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Development, data collection, data storage, life logging, software
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Data Fusion
I first came across applications for data fusion at a small start-up company that did contract work for CSIS and the RCMP. Military organizations have been using the technology for years but there have not been real applications for it … Continue reading
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Software Mercenary or Software Ninja?
I bet this is a question that you ask yourself every day when you get up first thing in the morning. I know I would have been doing it if I had thought of it sooner. Last night I was … Continue reading
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Tagged C++ programming, communication, Contracting, entrepreneurship, innovation, software, software mercenary, software ninja
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More design patterns
Last week I had a post where I briefly described the history and basis for design patterns and then went on to look at Singletons and Factories. Today lets consider the last two of the Creational patterns, the builder and the … Continue reading
What are design patterns?
Design patterns are elements of re-usable object oriented code that were first defined by Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides in 1995. These four authors are sometimes referred to as “the gang of four”. If you have looked at any recently … Continue reading
COBOL ?
Yes I know that it’s April 1 and no this is not an April fools joke. Believe it or not there are still organizations out there that use COBOL. Wikipedia defines COBOL as: COBOL (pron.:/ˈkoʊbɒl/) is one of the oldest … Continue reading
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Tagged COBOL, COBOL IDE's, programming, software, software development
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Do I buy hardware or software?
As computer hardware and software evolve, consumers have to decide whether to solve a problem with hardware or software. It is important to analyze the problem that you are trying to solve and carefully compare the performance of a hardware … Continue reading