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A quick review of his employer: http://www.fsmlabs.com/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/ and his publications and talks: http://www2.fsmlabs.com/~cort/publications/ h
by anthonyrubin 18y ago
A quick review of his employer:
http://www.fsmlabs.com/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/
and his publications and talks:
http://www2.fsmlabs.com/~cort/publications/ http://www2.fsmlabs.com/~cort/publications/
might give one a better idea of where he is coming from.
I have a hard time believing that Mr. Dougan has ever written any end-user business software. He also shows his ignorance when he claims that certifications such as the MCSE are "good beginnings". These certifications often prove little beyond one's test-taking ability.
I do not dismiss his views in whole. There is certainly a lot of incompetence in the industry. Many CS programs have been dumbed down to increase admissions. These topics deserve consideration and discussion.
- anthonyb 18y agoHe does appear to completely lose the plot in several instances, eg. Extreme Programming is all about drinking Jolt, snowboarding and all night hacking sessions, now can we all get on with some more testing please. It would also be easier to take him seriously if his paper wasn't riddled with grammatical errors. Holding up programmers as lazy when you haven't proof read your publication properly does seem a little odd. (I notice that it's marked as an "unpublished draft" on his site, but if you're going to put it up on the web I figure it's fair game). I also particularly like the way that he advocates planning in advance, doing things right, etc. but then can't get the budget for a decent test environment (for their real time OS no less) in http://www2.fsmlabs.com/~cort/publications/sparky/sparky.pdf http://www2.fsmlabs.com/~cort/publications/sparky/sparky.pdf and has to cobble together a PC from spare parts.
- Kaizyn 18y agoConsidering that the paper is posted as an unpublished draft on his documents listing, isn't it a bit silly to criticize this paper because it has typos and spelling errors?
- anthonyb 18y agoYeah, I acknowledged that in my post above. Since then I've read a couple of his other published papers - they have similar errors too.