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- data, data, data, data, data.
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- if you have good ideas about document structure and ways to send
- messages around that have magic cookies in them, that's good. but in
- order to convince anyone to do anything substantial in terms of
- software development you need to provide data.
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- get 100 entries describing 100 things that are useful, add enough
- structure that a motivated party can pull your database apart and
- create something new from it, and people will start to write code.
- (honest.) produce another 10 entries a month for a year and more
- people will write code or bend their existing code to work with your
- system.
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- Don't wait for an all-singing, all-dancing standard before you start
- to collect information. If you gather enough stuff and organize it
- well, other people will do the work of bringing it up to what is
- considered standard (if and when that happens). You do need to be
- thorough in making sure that whatever you do is consistent and regular
- enough to be worth retrofitting.
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- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
- MSEN, Inc. 628 Brooks Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 741 1120
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