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On the right number of methods, classes or DLLs in a project - or: Just cut a few and it will be perfect
Udi Dahan did a posting on a question he received from a developer the other day: The developer asked him, why Udi was so much in favor of so many DLLs in a project? Wouldn´t the large number of DLLs make the project unnecessarily complicated?
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Meeting a "hero" of my youth: Prof. Niklaus Wirth
Today was a surprising and very happy day for me: Scheduled to talk at the iX Conference - Better Software - in Colone, Germany, I was invited to participate in the panel discussion on "Software development - art or engineering dicipline" for Tom DeMarco, who had to leave the conference early. The topic was fun, although in the end we were mostly discussing whether there still was a software crisis or not and what its characteristics might be.
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A new slant on Desktop Search: search engine and disk drive united
For those who demanded an English posting when I wrote my last blog entry here´s a link you can follow to explore Suchwerk - an interessting tool which somewhat combines Google´s desktop search and Windows Explorer´s file search. Suchwerk (German, could be translated to something like "search factory") is a virtual drive which allows you to organize file in a virtual hierarchy of folders. The folders contents are dynamic and you don´t need to explicitly put files into them. It´s done automatically by Suchwerk according to a query you implicitly specify by creating the folder hierarchy.
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Desktop Search einmal anders: Suchmaschine und Laufwerk in einem
Bin gerade auf www.suchwerk.net gestoßen. Eine interessante Technologie!