Natural Order Development

The original idea was for NOD SW to be about Natural Order Development software projects, programming (process, techniques and patterns) best practices for software projects. A kind of specialized collection of resources, tools and information. But that seems so dry now that I am actually trying to build it and seeing it come into being.

There have been a few things I wanted to do where I have said to myself "self, that really wont fit with the NOD only theme." So after debating with my self a lot ("self, then there would be less interesting things, it can still be themed but not so tightly constricted", "hmm, you have a point their self. OK maybe I can open it up. Lets expand the to do list with more of the community items and then see what that looks like.", "self, you got a deal." -- I am sometimes very easily swayed by myself.)

The best thing to do is to make NOD SW a simple collection of resources, tools and information We (as in YOU and everyone one else who comes here) find useful with no overall theme other then being about programming. This is a place to explore what can be done with modern programming techniques and modern languages like Java, Python, Jython and shell scripting. I expect the usefulness or even originality to be a bit hit and miss but that's not a bad thing.

Of course this will be a lot more interesting if more people toss in their ideas and occasionally stand on soap boxes (of various sizes). So please don't hesitate to join up (its free and no spam) use the site and of course discuss, comment, question and/or criticize (politely of course) without hesitation.