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Posted in English, Psychology, Technology on Sep 9th, 2005
The Waterfall model is originally invented by Winston W. Royce in 1970. He wrote a scientific article that contained his personal views on software development. In the first half of the article, he discusses a process that he calls “grandiose”. He even drew a figure of the model, and another showing why it doesn’t work [...]
Posted in English, Learning, Technology on Jun 5th, 2004
Object orientation is an interesting and powerful way of designing, modeling and creating not just applications but also business models and just about anything. Here I’ll explain the basics.
Classes and objects
Instead of creating insubstantial and vague procedures and functions with extensive flow control to create the best spaghetti meal in town, objects allow the creation [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Feb 10th, 2003
This is an introduction to the XP (Extreme Programming)
method of developing software. It is based loosely on Kent Beck’s book
“Extreme Programming Explained” and mainly on my own experiences in using
XP. This introduction shortly explains the basics behind XP, how each XP
practice relies on other practices, with heavy testing being the founding
base, and how the XP [...]
