Our beginnings never know our ends

February 6th, 2010 by Jay Shaw 1 comment »

The main part of the mechanismIt is a truism of IT development that the use cases for which developers create solutions almost always end up changing, often before the development project is even finished. Then clients “bend” the software to entirely new uses or implement the software in unimagined ways. I’ve come to appreciate that making software is a lot like sailing — dynamic, which is to say sometimes exhilarating, sometimes frightening and changing all the time.
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Forecast: Cloudy, Chance of Rain

January 27th, 2010 by Jay Shaw 5 comments »

cloudsIn 1965 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones wrote Get Off of My Cloud, a rant against the buttoned down pre-hippy status quo of the mid-60s—the cloud in the title being of course that heavenly fluff on which Mick and Keith (mostly Keith) pined to float away to a bright new, sunshiny day.
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