windows
The year 2005 marks the 20th anniversary of Windows 1.0: The first version of Windows I actually used was Windows 3.0. Coming from an Amiga background, I was unimpressed. It wasn’t until Windows 3.1 and Windows For Workgroups 3.11 that I actually started to believe
software development
A friend of mine recently returned the book Showstopper! after an extended loan. If you haven’t heard of this book, allow me to quote the Amazon.com editorial summary: Showstopper! is a vivid account of the creation of Microsoft Windows NT, perhaps the most complex software project ever undertaken.
software development
Although it's a little hard to parse through, I was blown away by The Rise of “Worse is Better”, because it touches on a theme I've noticed emerging in my blog entries: rejection of complexity, even when complexity is the more theoretically correct approach. Two famous
software development concepts
Ten years out, in terms of actual hardware costs you can almost think of hardware as being free. - Bill Gates We've all been reaping the benefits of Moore's Law for the last 20 years, but there is one unintended consequence of this rule: as hardware