Tag Archive 'c-by-d'

To Begin, Think End

As projects go, the c-by-d design is just in the formative stages, but a milestone has clearly been reached. We have begun to stop ‘collecting options’ in favor of ‘finding the framework’ from within the data collected. At this point, I have roughly 15,300 elements of varying relevance collected to speak to this project.
This is [...]

The Watchmaker’s Bench

In very few activities, do the true nature’s of both art and scientific engineering come together as equals in a finely honed craft.  Watchmaking is such an activity.  There is a innate recognition and a mastery of patterns… the patterns of the gears, the patterns of the ratios, the patterns of the durations required to [...]

System’s Design

I have been working on a fundamental systems design for the c-by-d service today.
I am learning just how challenging this work is likely to be.  The concepts for this project are tough enough to address as separate entities, but as a working whole, with all the detail they would require to deliver the value they [...]

Increasing Value

Arriving at the deepest fundamental truth about something is hard. It takes a great deal of effort to refine your thinking about anything to a degree that you reveal a lower level of conceptual understanding than what had previously been understood. When the target of that effort are concepts as basic as capability, [...]

Yesterday, I was in Chicago to attend a short (morning-only) seminar regarding continuous integration software development.  The seminar was put on by two commercial tools vendors; AccuRev (software configuration management-SCM) and Electric Cloud (automated and accelerated sw build management).
The tools these vendors provide are both philosophically rooted in the agile development methodologies but are methodology [...]