Category: Software Engineering
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Lego, Wombles and Linked Data
As a child I loved Lego. I could let my imagination run riot, design and build cars, space stations, castles and airplanes. My brother didn’t like Lego, instead preferring to play with Action Men and toy cars. These sorts of toys did nothing for me, and from the perspective of an adult I can understand…
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Managing the code-garden
Kevin Barnes suggests that software engineering is a bit like gardening – software is never finished – you need to spend some time planning, some time adding new features and some time tending to what you have. Otherwise your code will become steadily more and more unmanageable. Basically, code is like a garden. We lay…