Category: Blog
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Estimating Software Projects Without Lying to Yourself
Abstract: Most estimation failures aren’t math problems, they’re honesty problems — we know a task is uncertain and we write…
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Risk Management for Small Dev Teams: A Practical Framework
Abstract: Most risk management frameworks are written for organizations with a PMO, a risk officer, and quarterly steering committees. A…
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How to Restore guarddog in Ubuntu Natty 11.04
Canonical has a very ugly habit of removing from repositories applications that you use and love, but they think these…
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Understanding Configuration Management in Software Development
Software configuration management is an important element of software quality assurance. The following configuration items should be maintained in the…
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Designable Components Beyond TPanel
Making a custom TPanel descendant behave well at design time is the easy case — most other base classes need…
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Fastest XSLT Processors Benchmarked Today
My original processor benchmark post is old enough that the numbers in it no longer reflect current releases, and a…
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Large Font & DPI Scaling in Delphi Apps
Delphi applications designed at 96 DPI look cramped, clipped, or oddly spaced on the high-DPI displays most users have today,…
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Fastest XSLT Processors Benchmarked Today
My original processor benchmark post is old enough that the numbers in it no longer reflect current releases, and a…
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System Font Handling in Delphi Forms
Delphi forms designed with a hardcoded font look wrong the moment they run on a machine with different DPI or…
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How to Convert JSON to XML using XSLT 2.0
XSLT 2.0 is powerful enough to process even non-XML input. For example, I have created a transformation that converts JSON…