Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips There are many tasks that are difficult and require fine motor control and dexterity. They are darn near impossible—unless you have a tool. A few years ago, we were building a system that had a sensor. The sensor would sense the state of an other system and relay signals to a processor. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The search to find a method to develop software tended to pass over the fact that smart people were doing a good job while those who struggled simply struggled. Back in the early days, smart persons were writing software. They did it well, their software ran correctly. Look at the first word, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips An old person, who was around in the 1970s, looks back at the Waterfall process of software development. The waterfall process. Of course the pure waterfall doesn’t work, that is why competent persons never used it. Go way back when and realize that graphics programs (Paint, Draw, Misio) weren’t available. It was […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Angst rules America this week. We have to do something. What can I change and how? Here is a set of questions to guide me. I write this in early June 2020. We have demonstrations and protests calling for justice and change. Perhaps I am too rational or practical, but I feel […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Back to fundamentals. We don’t always have to choose one or the other. We can have both. “You have to pick,” said a well meaning person. “I choose all of the above,” said another well meaning person. “No. That is not one of the choices,” said the first well meaning person as […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Whatever method you use to accomplish your work, you are choosing it over something else. You gain something with your choice; you lose something with your choice. That is your trade. “We do DevSecOps,” said one practitioner. “We do agile,” said another. “We do what we feel like doing everyday,” said a […]

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by Dwayne Phillips This is a basic thing to do when working as a group to create and refine ideas. This procedure works with just about any task where a group of persons is working together to create and refine ideas. One example is gathering requirements and creating preliminary designs. Another is outlining or formulating […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We can think to the logical conclusion of a concept. We, however, can choose not to go to that conclusions. We rarely do. The logical conclusion of free enterprise is slavery. The logical conclusion of free speech is hate. The logical conclusion of survival of the fittest is murder. Many more examples […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We hate to admit it, but we are here and now because of our past actions. “How did we get here?” bemoans a person currently caught in some quicksand of life. The answer is, “Out steps brought us here.” Another answer is, “The system is the way it is because we made […]

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by Dwayne Phillips In bad times, the storyteller will always have a job. Someone famous said this, I don’t remember who. Look at Hollywood in the great depression. Look at polarized, fussy America today. It began in 2016 during the (un)presidential campaign and continues. The Hallmark Channel makes predictable romantic movies. Their ratings are up […]

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