Brugge Blog

The folks at Berkeley, trying to measure the immeasurable, have figured that the amount of information created in 2003 was 5 exabytes. That is, roughly, “the the information contained in half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections.” That is a very big number for the human scale.

It makes […]

An interesting metaphor for doing process for process sake, Ned Batchelder writes about a couple of cases of cargo cult software engineering. Instead of using a process as a means to a higher goal, you think that the process is the higher goal. This has been the gripe about Big Methodologies as long as they’ve […]

Continuing to build off the appeal of a “pragmatic” approach to software development that emphasises the craft of software rather than the academic or theoretic approaches, the pragmatic duo have a new collection of books out that they call The Pragmatic Starter Kit. Their ideas are refreshing reminders of why we do this silly thing […]

So what if Microsoft has 98% of the desktop OS market, and they aren’t slowing down? Robert Cringely ponders where their .NET juggernaut will end, and as a side note has a link to a ZDNet artice on the convergence of Java and .NET.

Is the single language (C#), single vendor (MS), single platform (.NET) world […]