> From: Andreas Raab
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:26 AM
> 
> Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> > <apicall: MyStruct 'MyAPICall' (long) module: 'my.dll'>  and sending in
> nil.
> > And
> > <apicall: MyStruct 'MyAPICall' (MyStruct) module: 'my.dll'>  <- this is
> so
> > cool!  I assume that Andreas wrote this code, it is beautiful!
> 
> I did write the code but credits where credits are due: The design has
> been *heavily* influenced by John Sarkela at the time who happened to
> work with the customer and had done a similar design before (I think it
> was for V but I don't quite remember).
> 

I interviewed John a number of years back and then fought like you wouldn't
believe to get him hired on.  He didn't want to move and the company was
foolish enough to think that mattered.  He agreed to 1 week a month which I
thought was great.  

I was very impressed with his comments about code mining, refactoring and
packaging.  His concept was a code miner or a team of miners should be
responsible for reviewing all the code that goes into a system, that there
are a number of hidden jewels that should be mined, cleaned up, reinserted
if the same problem has been solved multiple times, and then communicated to
the development team.  He believed that reliable complex programs could be
built by better organization and communication during the development
lifecycle.  He believe that the resulting stability, the expert review of
core components, and the increased productivity from reuse as the system
developed would pay for the code miners.  Having built some very large
programs myself, and seeing the code that has gone in by others, and
spending nights fixing problems on live systems I know he is right.  The
concept would have made a great book and would have been more productive
then pair programming!  (Don't get me started)

I'm really sorry I didn't get the chance to work with him.  Where is he now?

Ron Teitelbaum
President / Principal Software Engineer
US Medical Record Specialists
Ron at USMedRec.com