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I have been interested in intellectual property--particularly as it applies to software-- for a long time. I believe that intellectual property issues (such as licensing) are a major concern in software development; yet, there is almost no research that looks at IP from an engineering point of view.

IP is an area overlooked by researchers, but not by practitioners. They have to deal with these problems, and have found fascinating ways to address licensing constraints. Continue reading "ICSE 2009: License Integration Patterns: Dealing with Licenses Mismatches in Component-Based Development"

My work is creeping into my sleep. Last night I dreamed I had a conversation with Eben Moglen. I was asking him to clarify his interpretation of derivative work under the scope of the GPL. Exactly what I have been trying to write the whole week. The worst part? he didn't answer.


--dmg

other than tasting the stuff and reading about it, I didn’t really know much about the process that went into making it.

--dmg

that’s what it was all about.

And got him a Nobel prize 17 years later.

--dmgh

"Its like when a woman gets dressed at home..."
   Ferran Adrià

And Can it get any better?Adrià and José Andrés, in Salkin's kitchen, but he couldn't take a bite! Of course I am envious, and I still don't know if I admire him, or feel he is stupid.

"Creativity, he said, means going down untraveled roads and not worrying about the destination."

Will I ever visit el Bulli? The odds stack against me.

--dmg

to save our lives...

--dmg

by C. Bennett,D. Myers,M.-A. Storey, ,D. M. German, D. Ouellet, M. Salois and P. Charland

Abstract

Sequence diagrams can be valuable aids to software understanding. However, they can be extremely large and hard to understand even using modern tool support. Consequently, providing the right set of tool features is important if the tools are to help rather than hinder the user. This paper surveys research and commercial sequence diagram tools to determine the features they provide to support program understanding. Although there has been significant effort in developing these tools, many of them have not been evaluated using human subjects. To begin to address this gap, a preliminary study was performed with a specially designed sequence diagram tool that implements the features found during the survey. Based on an analysis of the study results, we discuss the features that were found useful and relate these to the tasks performed. It concludes by proposing how future tools can be improved to better support the exploration of large sequence diagrams.

JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
J. Softw. Maint. Evol.: Res. Pract. 2008; 20:291–315


Bibentry here

...and a nation

--dmg

Because he can.

And might pigs fly?He would probably say yes. "he has made more money in two days than all the artists in the National Gallery earned in a lifetime."

--dmg