Software As She’s Developed

… a blog entry in which I define the term “proving”. I’m defining it here because I needed to link to a definition and couldn’t find a suitable URL to point to. A few years ago, we were in a meeting when an architect explained to the project manager “we’ll be spending the first few weeks […]

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What manner of 19th century public domain dicitonaries are packaged with 21st century software? For Montogomery Burns, these word lists would be just spifflicastic, but maybe not for the average citizen. I just installed Thunderbird 1.5RC1, keen to check out the spell-check. Neither “blog” and “podcast” were recognised as valid words, despite one of the other […]

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