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Introduction
Total Quality Management is one of the founding pillars of modern mass-production economy, of which the software industry is by far the youngest (and most rebel) child. This article will provide a short discussion on some TQM principles and about their applicability to software projects.

Introduction
Charles Petzold, in its book “Code”, states the following:
In theory, application programs are supposed to access the hardware of the computer only through the interfaces provided by the operating system. But many application programmers who dealt with small computer operating systems of the 1970s and early 1980s often bypassed the operating system, particularly in dealing [...]

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Le Courrier est peut-être un des derniers journaux suisses vraiment indépendants. J’apprécie le ton critique de ses notes, la qualité de sa rédaction, et le fait que chaque note me fasse penser le monde d’une façon différente.
Mais ils sont à point de disparaître à jamais; ils ont un passif de CHF [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: July 7th, 2000
Downloads: viacard.zip
Licence: Creative Commons Public Domain
“Viacard” is the fantasy name I gave to an imaginary public transportation payment card for the city of Buenos Aires. I did this project while studying Economy in Buenos Aires, and it might be of interest to anyone else. It is in [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: April 2007
Programming Languages: UML 2.0, LaTeX
Tools: TeXShop
Platforms: n/a
Download: qnx.pdf
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
A report on the QNX Operating System.

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: June - July 2006
Programming Languages: UML 2.0, LaTeX
Tools: TeXShop, Poseidon for UML 4.2 Community Edition
Platforms: n/a
Download: aims.zip
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
AIMS (Airport Information Management System) is a complete system description document, written in LaTeX and formatted as a single PDF file. It describes hypothetical system used by the fictional “Albatross” [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: April - May 2006
Programming Languages: Ruby, LaTeX
Tools: TeXShop, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project
Platforms: Ruby on Rails
Download: highlighter.zip
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
Highlighter is a complete project plan, written in LaTeX and formatted as a single PDF file. It describes the creation of a hypothetical web-based project management tool, written on top of [...]

Introduction
I have been working as a software developer since 1996, and as such I’ve used a variety of different languages, both compiled and interpreted. But the who languages that I know and use most today, are two somewhat different ones, C# and Ruby. I will begin my presentation with a short explanation of both, providing [...]