Codebase as living organism

Here's an interesting article with a fascinating new metaphor, really two insights: (1) the machine is not the codebase and (2) the codebase can be seen as a living thing. Worth a read.

Google on bug prediction and Microsoft on empirical programming

Neat post on HNN about bug prediction at the Goog; answered at HNN with a link to Microsoft's publications on empirical programming, many of which are mouthwatering. Gotta look at this when I have a minute.

Software maintenance target: CiviCRM

CiviCRM is a "constituent relationship manager" for politics. I like open-source politics, which is what got me back into programming in the first place, a couple of years back. So the software maintenance domain could usefully examine those projects, bug reports, and ... work on meta-software-maintenance tools.

Hey, I just want to immanentize the Eschaton, that's all.

Target domain: software maintenance

OK, so this is probably kind of a fluff post, but I want to be able to model the software maintenance process to the point that I can jump in and analyze a given open-source project, then contribute to it. That's it. Thanks for listening.

Your Code is my Hell: Musings on Ruby project maintenance

Interesting article looking at maintenance of Ruby-on-Rails projects and how they are likely to recapitulate their phylogeny. Which tells me really (since I like software maintenance) I should be learning Ruby on Rails as the cool kids move on to whatever the hell they rabbit off to next.