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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