Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John F. KennedyIf there is any guarantee that any project should anticipate it is CHANGE. You can be 100% sure that something will change. You might not …
I've just discovered the threading.Event class, which has the methods set() and is_set() to communicate between threads. There is also a wait(timeout=None) method, which blocks until the flag is set.import os import sys import threading import time # this is where the real work is done def function(duration, e): …
Every computation occurs in some runtime. The challenge is to accomplish complex tasks using available runtime even when it is clearly impossible to use a single runtime to complete the task. Therefore, there is a need to atomise the complete task into a coherent sequence of runtimes to accomplish the …
Process development, maintenance and optimisation.
"The Fog Creek approach really is that programmers are talent... the programmers here are like the stars and the directors of a movie." Joel Spolsky on Fog Creek SoftwareHaving worked over the last few years on a relatively unstructured project, I have a growing angst to elaborate a clear …
Every time I read about how to produce software I invariably come upon the phrase 'software development life cycle'. What is cyclical about it? It's confusing and should not be referred to this way. It's almost as if once software is delivered the production team go back to the begin …