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I had a lot of trouble finding out how to get my freshly developed App onto my Apple Watch for testing. Here's what I found out...

When I was in high school in the 90ies, I had one of the first "Programmable calculators" with a 6 line monochrome LCD screen that could also plot math functions. Today, about 30+ years later, I stumbled onto this:...

UML modelling tool galore... pretty much complete... maybe more than you want A shortlist would be nice. Once with only tools that are serious about UML, excluding those claiming to be UML modellers just because they can connect boxes with lines.

This is actually a good memento of the different UML diagram types, their syntax and when to use them. Narrowed down to the minimum you need when you quickly want to refresh your memory on one of those not so used diagrams.

This thread in Ask Joel is the most interesting discussion I've ever read abut offshoring/outsourcing software development! It's getting incredibly long though, so it's really hard to read through. But the first 25 comments are definitely worth…...

Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET - All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn…