On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:29 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > Rick at SwaNH asked if I could fill in on a panel discussing future > software directions. This was better, imo, than having no GNHLUG > representation at all. Next year, I'm hoping we can try better to > have a slate of presentations ready to propose when the Call for > Papers goes out. I have the impression our suggestions would be > welcomed, just not thirteen days before they are supposed to pull off > the conference. > > I have the problematic task of a ten-minute presentation on "Managing > for Quality & Performance: Latest in Development Tools & Techniques" > described (here: http://swanh.parkerhill.com/infoxchange/events.htm) > as "Utilizing product lifecycle innovations to deliver better > applications on time & on budget" > > My plan is to briefly point out and make parallels between Software > Development in general, from waterfall to XP, COBOL to AOP, and point > to some of the up-and-coming tools and techniques out there: Eclipse, also the Java Net Beans IDE competes with Eclipse > Subversion, Unit Testing, Python, Ruby, AJAX, wxWidgets, Social > Software (wikis, blogs and RSS), QuantaPlus, Mozilla/Venkman/ > SeaMonkey, a few pithy quotes from esr's TAOUP, and Small Things > Loosely Joined.
I've been impressed with test driven development when I have used it. Write a handful of test functions. Then write the code the tests depend on. It forces you to think through the API *and* your test suite is completed before the real code. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2005/02/03/tdd_pyunit2.html > Along with a joke of two. That should fill ten > minutes, eh? If you get too many responses you'll fill a whole lot more than ten minutes. > > I would welcome others insights into what they believe the Software > Tools of the Future are, in concrete URLs or general terms. > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-org mailing list > gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org
