Following Netscape’s theme, Google Chrome, evidence that all software applications tend towards operating systems:
We’re applying the same kind of process isolation you find in modern operating systems.
Bets on Chrome being extended in a couple of years to provide virtualisation?
37Signals’ Getting Real is a great read. As they say, straight-through server-side systems require more rigour, but I can see this is the way to go for web applications:
Getting Real is about skipping all the stuff that represents real (charts, graphs, boxes, arrows, schematics, wireframes, etc.) and actually building the real thing.
And I’ll be making time – at last – to learn Ruby on Rails…
A software product, like any other, might be though of as having a production function, though perhaps in software, the function determines quality not quantity.
That is, the quality of a software product is determined by the quality of the inputs and the development process. The inputs to the function might be:
The development process must be agile and people seem to be converging somewhere between early XP and RUP.
Now, how often do software projects get these inputs right?