<$BlogItemTitle$> Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton

 
Interview with the KDE and Gnome UI/Usability Developers - OSNews.com.  A peak at OSnews, and a site devoted to operating-system initiatives, etc. This discussion of where desktops are going, and how they are being componentized is intriguing.
posted by Dennis at Friday, April 04, 2003

 
ACM News Service: Right Game, Wrong Team.  This Joshua Kerievsky article is about applying the test-driven approach of eXtreme Programming (XP) at the management level, and it serves to connect the team with overall objectives for a software-development effort.  There are clear guidelines on avoiding micro-management and excessive formality but placing accountability to overall goals at a level that the development team can embrace and master.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, April 01, 2003

 
Computer Bulletin September 1999 - Why systems go up in smoke.  A great link from classmate Lesley Chaddock that also finds the British Computer Society on-line pages.  There's an old chess-board representation algorithm that I am intending to dig up.
posted by Dennis at Monday, March 31, 2003