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Is there an analogy in the house?
People who create software are forever trying to explain their somewhat obscure disipline by offering friendly analogies. The most common one is that making software is like building buildings. Recently there's been some discussion of this notion, including an article on Kuro5hin suggesting that "the software construction analogy is broken."
Maybe making software is more like politics, or writing laws. Or like writing music. Or like growing critters in vats. Or like...
Brian Marick and Ken Schwaber are trying to broaden the thinking in this area and are organizing an event at an upcoming software conference that they call the Analogy Fest: "The Analogy Fest is an attempt to manufacture serendipity, to create the circumstances in which clever people might have an 'Aha!' moment. We'll do that by having semi-structured, small group conversations about papers that draw analogies between software development and something else."
Sounds interesting to me. I think they're still looking for more papers to make the event happen.
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If you used an IBM PC in the 1980s -- if you used one a lot -- you came to know, and perhaps love, the feel of the old IBM keyboards. They were solid. The keys moved. They clicked. Over time, as every aspect of PC manufacturing faced the grim reaper of cost-cutting, keyboards became flimsy and disposable pieces of plastic. The touch and feel of the old IBMs became a lost artifact of the early PC era.
So I was thrilled to read (on MSNBC, via Gizmodo) that somebody is still making a contemporary equivalent of those old keyboards. They cost about $50, or five to ten times the price of today's junky keyboards, but boy, I think it's probably worth it.
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I was mostly offline for a few days, on vacation, then intended to post once I was back home, but my machine at work that runs Radio rebooted and I couldn't reach it remotely. I'm back now and the Radio is on again...
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