Master Sarkela (was: Help with FFI structure pointer)

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Aug 3 08:18:40 UTC 2006


Hi ron

john is working now (since a year or two) at cincom on the new  
virtual machine for mac os x.
he did not reply to my emails so I do not know more
sarkela at sbcglobal.net may be try this one or contact eliot

Stef

On 2 août 06, at 23:19, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

>
>> 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
>
>
>




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