Software Development: Design, Coding, and Related Musings
I could not resist to take Andrew Boake’s choice of cartoon from the presentation he gave at Schanskop, and put it here. By it, I will be able to remember the nice discussion we had — at the Braai of course — about managing software developers . It is a “Doctor Fun” episode (October 2002), by David Farley.
I’ve returned from my South Africa trip two weeks ago already, that gave me enough time to get used to the Dutch cold again. While it is still quite fresh in my memory I would like to take the opportunity to write a bit about my experiences at the Espresso workshop. First of all, I would like to thank the Espresso group, and especially Derrick Kourie, to be so kind to organize the workshop and invite me. I had a very warm welcome; it was great being back in Pretoria for a short one-and-a-half day.
I got many reactions on my (short) presentation about abstraction and design foundations, and to hear from students that they enjoyed the talk, finding it interesting to hear from someone out there in the field was very nice. Especially the fact that I didn’t use, and I quote, “mathematical hieroglyphs that academics tend to use so much”, was an entertaining remark I was told at the evening Braai. Besides that, several very interesting points were brought up in the discussion, and I will follow up on one of them in this post. Continue reading ‘Espresso Follow Up’