I like to draw my meetings doodles on nice heavy paper using very specific pens, but anything will do in a pinch. I scratched this doodle during a meeting at a conference room at a Marriott, on one of those hotel-provided notepads. The paper is inexpensive, ruled, and has a hotel logo on it. The pen is a cheap ballpoint, designed to be used a few times and get lost at the bottom of a carryon bag. But doodling doesn’t require anything more than that; the beauty of it comes from the unconstrained freedom of expression generated by a stream of consciousness. ...
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Software Maintenance, Understanding the 4 Types
Software systems are a collection of bits recorded on a storage device. It might seem that once a software application works, as long as the hardware it runs on is functional, it should just keep working for eternity. So, why is “software maintenance” even a thing? There is no physical wear and tear, and there are no materials that can rot or rust away. Software systems are not affected by the atmosphere, pollution, the weather, and there isn’t anything that can physically break. However, this argumentation doesn’t take into consideration an essential aspect: the context. ...