This is the traditional waterfall methodology that is widely used for software development on the mainframe. The approach is top down, flowing like a waterfall. Each phase of the project has to be 100% complete before you move to the next phase of the project. The argument for waterfall development is time spent early on making […]
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Learning the Command Line
20 years of coding on an IBM mainframe, I rarely and I mean rarely ever had reason to venture away from TSO and enter an actual command in a terminal. When we finally got desktop computers, the files or folders I created I would do by right clicking on a folder and create new. […]
A blogging platform for Hackers!
Here is a cool blogging platform for hackers that has many cool and fun features to nurture your inner Geek. You can host your blog on Github for free as well. If you want to get your blog up and running quickly, check out the following link and you too can launch your blog and […]
Herding Racehorses and Racing Sheep
I started reading a book by Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, refactoring your wetware. In the Dreyfus model which studies the five stages in the journey to from novice to expert , Herbert Dreyfus states “to become competent, you must feel bad.” Novice Advanced Beginner Competent Proficient Expert Stage 1: Novices Novices are primarily […]
DrupalCon comes to the aid of Oklahoma Tornado Victims
I find this to be one of the best shifts that I have witnessed in the brief time that I have been learning about this vibrant open source community that exists across different languages and disciplines. I attended a DrupalCon in Denver last year and the thing that really resonated with me was the […]
