Tag Archives: semiotics

Semiotics: It’s a sign!

Posted on May 24, 2007 by stalker

A structural engineer once told me that he would always win pictionary if he was teamed with another engineer. Structural engineers have a symbolic language of their own and use it, normally in the workplace, to communicate more accurately. To … Continue reading →

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Using patterns to shape our world

Posted on March 9, 2007 by stalker

In the 1990s, Erich Gamma changed the way I thought about software engineering forever! Gamma visited the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne where I was a PhD student, in order to give a seminar on design patterns. The idea of … Continue reading →

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