User Scenarios Considered Harmful

Programming can be complex.  Modern systems can include many inputs from users.  Inputs that each need to be checked, processed, and results returned back to users.  A simple interface to the user may support many usage scenarios and many error scenarios.  Here I’ll make a case for not bothering with trying to figure out these […]

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I’m serious

I’m probably not the one taking this the most seriously… (I didn’t actually post this – I’m doing this dumb thing now called “thinking before doing.”) But then, I did actually post it: I got a bunch of votes – not even by myself, but definitely amusing and putting me in the lead as the […]

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CPN Tools 4.0.1 and Windows 10

I made a fresh new version of CPN Tools, version 4.0.1.  The change over 4.0.0 is a freshly compiled simulator compiled with the newest SML/NJ (version 110.78) and the newest version of Cygwin. This should hopefully remove problems with newer versions of Windows (except they are still, even with the OS X aspiring Windows 10 […]

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