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Latest version: The latest version of the Themes Clippings Collection is on the Internet at
<http://orcmid.com/themes/2001/11/T011100b.htm>.
{placeholder: I am reviving this topic to introduce my current approach to vocational themes and the management of projects that contribute in those areas.}
At the end of 2001, I went through a period of time when I could not tease out the themes of my vocational life and make a clean expression of what each of them is. I scrambled around and found e-mail conversations and other clippings where I thought something relevant had been expressed. This led to the original clipping collection. It was not a great expression. It was a compilation made as part of a struggle. Vocational themes that already being applied, but were not well articulated, included
- The Miser Project was initiated in May 2000, reviving a theme of mine that I have been exploring since the early 80's and, in some respects, as far back as the late 60's.
- I had gathered notes on software-systems architecture themes as part of my June 2001 NuovoDoc establishment on the web, collecting notes on some inter-leaved topics in mid-2002:
- Confirmable Experience as a topic
- Performance Architecture as a way of addressing that computer-based systems are valuable in how they are applied as instruments in the performance of human enterprise and that this is a domain for systems architectue
- System Coherence as an architectural theme, revived in 1999 along with examples of incoherence collected beginning in the mid-90's.
- Computer Programming for Everyone (CP4E), inspired by the work of the Python team, and Software Engineering for Everyone (SE4E) suggested in my April 2001 article on the topic.
From Thanksgiving 2002 until October 2005, I worked on an on-line M.Sc in IT. That commanded my attention and did lead to some important shifts in my use of technology and also in my vision for certain areas:
- nfoWare was conceived in January 2004, with greater organization emerging in 2006
- June 2004 saw the addition of two blogs,
- Professor von Clueless in the BlunderDome
- Numbering Peano, providing a place to discuss abstraction and some computation theory and practice related to the Miser Project
- February 2005 saw the launch of TROSTing.org around TROST: Templates for Raising Open-System Trustworthiness, my dissertation project.
- March 2005 saw the formulation of ODMdev for ODMA developments that apply TROST principles.
This held me for a while, but now (in mid-2006) I find that I still don't have focus that this interrupted exploration of themes was intended to achieve. It is also apparent that I have been unsuccessful at fulfilling the promises that I made around these varied and inter-woven projects.
Document Engineering:
- T011100b: Themes Clipping Collection (latest)
- T011100c: Themes Clipping Collection 0.20
- T011100a: Diary & Job Jar
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