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2008-02-18Cybersmith: Software Craftsmanship WikiFrom Sara Payton (via Tim O'Reilly) I learned of the forthcoming book, Software Craftsmanship: From Apprentice to Journeyman. This book is being developed on a Wiki and is a community effort in collaboration with the authors, Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye. I thought this would be really cool. I thought, maybe I won't have to invest so much in what I want to put here on "Professor von Clueless" and on nfoWare for encouraging novices and supporting advances in craftsmanship. Then I said, "Uh Oh." The terms and conditions for playing in the forum, whatever that is (I haven't gotten through to it yet) are 7 pages on my screen. This is discouraging. Since I always read the terms and conditions, and life is too short to dive into these, I have not registered. Also, I looked at the table of contents and a few chapters (one HTML page apiece, it seems) and I am not sure I care about this book. It is written as a form of pattern language. It also says some things that I am not sure I agree with. So, rather than sign up and chime in over there, I think I will stick to my guns and continue with VC++ Novice and Cybersmith postings right here (with backup material on the web site real soon now). You may find this more valuable than I did. I certainly like the idea. Please go visit and develop your own sense of the material that is posted so far. It is a work in progress and you might check back later to see how it becomes beefier. Since I started taking action on the nfoWorks idea, I find that I have trouble typing the correct one of the two terms nfoWorks and nfoWare. They are really different, even though connected. I will have to work at this. Since Harmony domains are unavailable, I will have to live with my too-similar choices. [update 2008-02-19-12:44 I am going crazy tagging. I used quotes instead of the comma-separated form required here in Windows Live Writer because I get confused about how de.licio.us uses space separate lists where I must use underscores versus my photo tagging tool which uses space-separated lists but quotes on multi-word-space-separated phrases. Sheesh. I also couldn't find any of my posts in Technorati, so I was looking for the culprit and ready to file bug reports when I noticed that there is this authority business and my personal settings for viewing tagged posts were set so high that my own posts weren't being reported to me. Urghh.]
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