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ArchiveOctober 2011

Yes, I’m a sinner

By Alexandru Bolboaca
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I am sure that by now you have heard about Steve Jobs and his premature death. Here’s something you probably haven’t heard about. Dennis Ritchie died this week. You probably never heard of him. I never heard of him until today, showing once again that I’m guilty of the developer sin #3. And the sad thing about it is that Steve Jobs might not have become the person we know if it...

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Passion Moves the World

By Alexandru Bolboaca
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Something about special people always moves me. That something is passion. Steve Jobs was from the beginning in the middle of a revolution that completely changed the world. At that time, it took real courage and burning passion to push for ideas that most people didn’t understand – and yet everyone uses today. I admire him for keeping the passion alive over the years. His push for...

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A new home for merging ideas about design

It is my strong belief that software design can learn a lot from other design disciplines. I wrote blog posts, a book and did talks on this topic, and it was time to group them all together. These ideas have now a new home: https://codedesigner.eu. My plan is to add more blog posts there, and to involve other people doing work in this area.