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This is a revision of a paper submitted on 27-06-2010 to the Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences. Abstract According to ISO, in order to produce a high quality product, organization needs a high quality producing process, which means a well defined and organized process. Generally speaking, this is true in variant industries, but [...]
It’s been a while since I post a paper titled “Linux vs. Windows, Software Engineering Perspective“. Nowadays, when I call it back, I always say that the must important idea out of it was what I can call it an age-old conflict between user’s requirements and developer’s requirements. I believe that the weight of this [...]
Since I attended my first IT-related course; an MS Windows and Office course, more than ten years ago, I’ve been asking my self… Could HTML be an alternative to common document formats, like DOC, DOCX, and ODT? World wide web would not be possible without independent standards for sharing and publishing rich texts. And since [...]
Here is a brief summary of the discussion about a GNU license for databases/dictionaries, and a primarily conclusion out of it. “You cannot copyright databases in the US AFAIK. There was a case about a phone dictionary” “why would we regard some dictionaries’ definitions as better than others? There is not a single, correct definition [...]
It’s been more than ten years since Microsoft published the first version of its own plaintext editor Notepad. And so far, no significant improvements or modifications happened. It still as is, simple, small, without frills! Notepad2 is an alternative, tries to expand the original software’s capabilities, with following and maintaining its principle; simplicity. A principle-driven [...]