software engineering – The Nexus of 2024

Yesterday my former Microsoft colleague Matt Lerner, now at FrontSeat (“software for civic life”) sent out mail about the new ObamaCTO.org site, a user-powered forum for gathering and prioritizing ideas for Obama’s new CTO.Â Anybody can register, vote on ideas, or submit your own; in a twist from digg-style rating, each person is limited to…

Rant: I hate software

Sep 23, 2008

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jon

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also posted on Pam’s House Blend. for a good time, compare and contrast how Soapblox (there) and WordPress (here) display the URLs in the quotes 🙂 As a “grand old man” of the software engineering field of defect detection, I sometimes take it personally when I run into bugs or usability problems.Â My IM friends…

Strategy, security, and static analysis: what’s next for me

Apr 1, 2008

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jon

in Personal, Professional

Fourteen years ago today was my last day at Digital Equipment Corporation before leaving to work on the technology today became PREfix and the company I started with a few friends that became Intrinsa, so it seems especially appropriate to post about this today … I’m delighted to announce that I’m starting a part-time strategy…

My new bio-in-progress, 2.0

Mar 26, 2008

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jon

in Personal, Professional, social computing

It’s amusingly difficult for me to write professional biographies, especially for print publications. Not only do I have a hard time reducing my career to the paragraph you’re usually allowed, at some level it feels like it forces me to reify my identity. Nonetheless, it has to be done; right now, I’m on the hook…

Indeed! The Economist on “computer science as a social science”

Mar 12, 2008

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jon

in Professional, social computing, social sciences

The Economist’s Technology Quarterly has an excellent article on Software bugtraps: software that makes software better. This is something of a followup to an article they did a few years ago; most people quoted think that the situation is improving, although of course as Capers Jones points out it depends on your metrics. And why…

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