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MindManager in Software Development - Creating Tables From Topics - Part 3

"Once more into the breach, dear friends," spoke Henry the Fifth, delivering the line Shakespeare  wrote in 1600 or so.  We're not invading France in the early 1400's as Henry was, but the line seems to fit.  This post delivers the third version of a software development sample, and like Henry I'm growing somewhat weary but am too proud to give up. 

But no one is hacking at me with a sword, nor am I stuck on a plane in Philadelphia, so life could definitely be worse.

The point of doing this sample was to demonstrate the use of MindManager in software development. The problem at hand is the creation of tables from Map document Topic content. A MindManager macro implementation, MakeTable, is available for download.


This version incorporates additional content in the areas of architecture, design, test and implementation, and expands the background material topics.  The sample itself is attached to this post.  A Software Architecture Description map template included in the attached content is also available as a separate download.

 

Published Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:38 PM by dethomas
Attachment(s): TableCreation_Part3.zip

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About dethomas

So who is this dethomas guy anyway? Here's a capsule bullet point summary:
  • Midwestern white boy, ex-busboy, stock-clerk, grinder, welder and English major, now laboring lo these many years in the fields of awkward stone that characterize software development.
  • 20+ years of software development experience - CPM/Apple/Unix/DOS during the Reagan years, embedded systems before the term was common, Windows development since the first Clinton administration.
  • Mechanical engineering undergrad degree, showing that early success in thermodynamics is not necessarily a good thing. But the Apollo workstations running UNIX were cool.
  • Engineering master's degree with a control systems emphasis, demonstrating that publishing in IEEE Transactions is cool, but not necessarily a good thing.
  • Employed by an industrial electronics company as a principal engineer. Distinguished by several innovation awards, several software patents, and for once having used the word "Byzantine" in a requirements specification.
  • Learned FORTRAN on punch cards, learned Pascal, BASIC and APL to do numerical analysis in several fields of engineering, learned assembly, C, C++ and Java to write software for several embedded systems, custom applications and shrink-wrapped software products.
  • Has considerable exposure to a variety of technologies, including networking, databases, graphics libraries, linear programming, compilers, non-linear control systems, real-time operating systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, UML, .Net, XML, OPC, WSI, WSDL and WWF. (On that last one, WWF, dethomas is convinced he did time in high school with a guy who went on to success in the Mexican pro wrestling circuit under the name "el Queso Grande.")
  • Wide exposure to Microsoft Windows products and operating system editions as both user and developer, relative indifference to web technology and the dot com boom until the dust settled.
  • Has a cable modem, but no cable TV service. Which is a philosophical statement of sorts. Television is bad for you, the Internet is not. Or at least not yet.