Architectural Skills

re: Architectural Skills

AndrewSeven — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:06:00 GMT

You know what Dijkstra said about COBOL...

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Courses/134/dijkstra.html

re: Architectural Skills

Wallym — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:23:00 GMT

Awesome story. I think it really shows the flexibility of VB. BTW, I did not mean to imply that your previous article about architecture was bad or wrong. I merely meant to share my epxeriences in trying to sell architecture. Hope I did not offend.

Wally

re: Architectural Skills

Michael Platt — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:26:00 GMT

No, not at all. I agree with you. Selling architecture is hard and will continue to be so until people understand what it is about, really the point of the bolg, how do we educate people about architetcure

re: Architectural Skills

Adam — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:31:00 GMT

Michael

It sounds like spending a week working with you would be a great laugh ;)

re: Architectural Skills

moo — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:04:00 GMT

I actually enjoyed COBOL, one of the few I guess.

The teacher I had was a walking talking compiler. She always told us to have the solution before going to the VT100 DEC terminals. She would go around and compiler our code in her head. She was good.

Ahh the days of VAX/VMS and COBOL, when REAL Multiuser platforms ruled the earth unlike today's wannabies. Cant beat the big iron.

re: Architectural Skills

moo — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:06:00 GMT

Talking of architecting code, I always have lots of debugging helpful things in my code, if a method returns a retval, I set one, so I can see it clearly in the debugger with intellisense, and also its there to use later if I need to test on that.

I always add lots of events that I can subscribe to for testing and debugging, and debugging interfaces. Im just tired of people crying this is a bug thats a bug when its not, this way I can just show them there and then on the spot, they can even test it themselves from theyre calling code.

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re: Architectural Skills

jeff — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:04:00 GMT

Amen to everything you've said. I find that some folks get so hooked on being "loosely coupled" that they do so for the sake of being. It's annoying.