Posted by Robert Merrill on June 14, 2009 under Software-Intensive Businesses | 
Thanks, Jim Elliott, for showing me this article in Dr. Dobb’s Journal.
Chuck Connell draws a bright line between the two, and the discrimminant is, “directly involves human activity…the results from disciplines below the line might be used by people, but their results are not directly affected by people.”
Chuck concludes with, “…classical computer science is helpful to software engineering, but will never be the whole story. Good software engineering also includes creativity, vision, multi-disciplinary thinking, and humanity.” Read more of this article »
Posted by Robert Merrill on June 12, 2009 under Uncategorized |
“Thank you,” my three active clients, for keeping me so busy that I haven’t posted anything to my blog in exactly two months!
I don’t blog about clients. It would violate my agreements. Besides, it’s tacky. And between client work and personal life events, I haven’t done enough professional reading to have anything worth saying.
I know that needs to change because I need to be developing new business all the time, but the overall feeling is one of gratitude, not guilt or frustration. I’m thankful to those who trust me and value my contributions enough to keep me this busy. I get to feel useful every day, and it keeps a roof over our heads and food on the table. And that’s never to be taken for granted, especially now.
So, thank you, clients. You know who you are.
And if you’re not a client, but are in the Madison WI area, and are in the information technology profession and are out of work, contact me. Seriously. I won’t hire you, but maybe I know someone who knows someone who will.