Musings from David Norfolk, Practice Leader for Development & Governance.
I seem to be at Techwave 2008 today, probably because Philip Howard is on holiday. But there's a lot more to Sybase than databases....
Another of David Norfolk's visits to the Test Management Forum
Steve Mills described technology reuse in IBM Software in his RSDC 2008 keynote - and reuse of Informix RDS technology in IBM products bodes well for its future. However, technology reuse generally has been a very long time coming.
Once again there is a skills shortage. But we often worry about the wrong sort of skills. What is needed is the hard disciplines of proper Computer Science and Engineering.
A search for beauty in conference themes... Or, why does everything have to be so blinkin' cool?
A round up of what tickled me at RSDC in the way of new tools. We have a new (ish) language and some promise of help with governance.
A look at Rationals announcement of the Jazz platform, some new products and its reaction to the Telelogic acquisition.
Welcome to my new Blog, in which I set out the "terms of engagement" as far as I am concerned.