A few days ago I wrote about looking for metaphors to get to grips with what happens when a computer appears to be doing multiple things for multiple people at one time. The outcome was some ideas based on the physical metaphor of a house I lived in while studying at university. At that point …
I am a big believer in the power of metaphor and analogy in software development. While these things can certainly be misused, they are also a useful way of viewing a design from different perspectives to gain fresh insight. Some metaphors are so common that we even lose sight of the fact that they are …
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