More detail at t\ake one. What's new? A lot more detail in the parameters. Developing
that detail allows me to create a tighter, more consistent, and
ultimately more powerful API.
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"Convention over configuration" is a great way to write code - but a lot harder to explain when it comes time to write documentation.
For several years I have recommended improvements to the tools that
software projects use to answer technical questions and provide
documentation, such as wikis and mailing lists. My latest contribution
is a
draft of an API
that could be implemented in tools such as IDEs
and content management systems.
The computer industry is certainly not recession-proof, but the Open Source convention that's just wrapping up had more attendees than last year (we were up to
about 2000), and discussions about starting businesses based on open source seemed to take place everywhere. And I don't mean just free software: open source concepts apply to hardware, creative content, and other materials. Big topics included virtualization and the next stage of virtualization: cloud computing. Perhaps those are the practitioner's solution to multicores.
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