Work Issues

9-Feb-04 17:32

I've made a few practical applications of UML at work over the past year or two, applying what I've learned from a couple of books on the subject. My questions are:

* What books have you used to learn UML?
* Where did you learn UML -- self taught, instructor-led, OJT?
* If you actually used it at work, what was the scope and scale of the project?

Any other recommendations?

John Kuhn11-Feb-04 16:56

11-Feb-04 16:56

Perhaps very few people are reading this forum...?

Avery Moore13-Feb-04 11:03

Avery Moore

13-Feb-04 11:03

John Kuhn wrote:
Perhaps very few people are reading this forum...?

This does seem to be a slow forum Cry | :((

Avery Moore13-Feb-04 11:01

Avery Moore

13-Feb-04 11:01

John Kuhn wrote:
* What books have you used to learn UML?

UML Distilled followed by the Craig Larman book which is excellent.

John Kuhn wrote:
* Where did you learn UML -- self taught, instructor-led, OJT?

Self taught

John Kuhn wrote:
* If you actually used it at work, what was the scope and scale of the project?

I've only used it on one large project at my previous job and on some small scale stuff currently.

John Kuhn13-Feb-04 12:54

13-Feb-04 12:54

Avery, thanks for the response.

This book by Larman?: Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process (2nd Edition)

Thanks ahead for your evaluations

Avery Moore13-Feb-04 18:39

Avery Moore

13-Feb-04 18:39

John Kuhn wrote:
This book by Larman?: Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process (2nd Edition)

That's the one.

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Re: Thanks ahead for your evaluations

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9-Mar-04 18:05

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Data structures questions in interviews

Anonymous5-Feb-04 3:53

Anonymous

5-Feb-04 3:53

Data structures has always been favorite topic among interviewers. How about sharing our interview experiences on data structures?
Mine:
Reversing a linked list.

Re: Data structures questions in interviews

John Kuhn5-Feb-04 15:50

FREE Make utility for Windows ?

5-Feb-04 15:50

Ironically, in the last 13 years, no one has ever asked me any real "computer science 101" questions. As a result, I've become incredibly bad at answering them, and I don't often construct my own linked lists or binary trees when programming in C# or VB.NET, so I feel really rusty in these areas. I while ago, I picked up a book called "Programming Interviews Exposed" published by Wiley & Sons. It's crammed with exactly that kind of question, along with logic puzzles, etc., that might be asked during a programming interview.

vipsy1-Feb-04 23:03

vipsy

1-Feb-04 23:03

Hi All,

Currently I'm working on generation of makefile scripts.

I have a lot of problems here since the make utility I use is from Cygwin package.
This means that it recognizes only the paths in UNIX encoding, all of those \ to / and other stuff with spaces allowed in Win.
To avoid problems I have to double all my makefile vars with the followed method:

Example:

SOME_PATH = C:\My Path\
SOME_PATH_UNIX = C:/My\ Path

SOME_PATH_UNIX/target : SOME_PATH_UNIX/prerequisite
sometool "SOME_PATH\prerequisite"

In other words I have to use UNIX path encoding for specifing targets and prerequisites and Windows path encoding for commands. That sux.

So my question is: Have anybody ever heard about FREE make utility for Windows with native Windows path encoding? It seems I cannot find it over Inet. I mean so FREE so I can redistribute it.

I would appreciate for any help

Heath Stewart29-Feb-04 19:20

Heath Stewart

29-Feb-04 19:20

You could either download and install cygwin[^], a Win32 port of UNIX posix libraries and utilities (including build tools like make, or download and install the Microsoft Platform SDK[^], which includes build tools like nmake (basically the same as make).

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vipsy1-Mar-04 0:04

vipsy

1-Mar-04 0:04

Thank you for reply, but unfortunately these utilities are not redistributable.

Heath Stewart1-Mar-04 2:03

Heath Stewart

1-Mar-04 2:03

nmake from the PSDK might not be, but make from cygwin is. In fact, I see a lot of applications that distribute the cygwin1.dll, other optional DLLs, and utilities to run *nix applications that have been recompiled against cygwin to run on Win32.

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vipsy1-Mar-04 18:17

vipsy

1-Mar-04 18:17

I have contacted with Red Hat sales manager about redistribution of Cygwin components. Here is the answer:

"Red Hat owns the copyright on the Cygwin dll and
as such makes the code freely available under the
licensing terms of the GPL. If the application
you are distributing is open source, you are fine.
If you want to distribute a prorietary application
you must purchase a Commercial License from us. We
offer a 3 year unlimited buyout for $50,000..."

--
Shawn Hunter
Sales Development Representative
Red Hat, Inc.

This is not my case in fact, because my application is commercial and close source.

So these guys that use Cygwin in close source manner may have troubles with the law.