tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2620598440410897214.post5157382287421287057..comments2023-07-09T09:38:52.684-04:00Comments on Belaboring the Obvious: Malik's Laws of Home ConstructionBrad Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00051961447398492858noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2620598440410897214.post-82679116291157049572009-11-13T07:05:22.918-05:002009-11-13T07:05:22.918-05:00Thanks Kraig; re: the choosing trick, did you see ...Thanks Kraig; re: the choosing trick, did you see http://bradjcox.blogspot.com/2009/04/mud-brick-enterprise-architecture-and.html?Brad Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00051961447398492858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2620598440410897214.post-90591678857048943692009-11-12T21:14:16.690-05:002009-11-12T21:14:16.690-05:00Your brick analogy is apt. We charge our employers...Your brick analogy is apt. We charge our employers an enormous amount for building these bricks over and over. Each employer gets a shiny new component, along with its many warts, and owns it outright; and they have no hope of selling it on to anyone else. Nor would they want to in the present world, because it's so tightly integrated with the rest of the software and because, if it's the least bit clever, someone probably already has a patent on it.<br /><br />All this is a problem crying out for a solution, but most of us have no incentive to solve it, since doing so will put us out of work! We write the same pieces over and over again, multiplied by tens of thousands of us...imagine if the marketing people could specify the behaviors they want and choose from a catalog of available components! A group of them would only need one software expert, instead of the other way around.<br /><br />This choosing, of course, would be a trick; it's orders of magnitude more complex than going to the building supply to choose appropriate bricks and mortar. However, it can be solved, and (as with the components themselves) only needs to be done once.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10421203706899936723noreply@blogger.com