{"id":81,"date":"2004-04-23T22:52:56","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T22:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?p=81"},"modified":"2004-04-23T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T22:52:56","slug":"a-report-on-uml-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/2004\/04\/a-report-on-uml-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"A Report on UML Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACM Queue often has very insightful articles, and this one is no exception. The article <a title=\"ACM Queue - Death by UML Fever - Are you (or your developers) sick?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acmqueue.com\/modules.php?name=Content&amp;pa=showpage&amp;pid=130\">ACM Queue &#8211; Death by UML Fever &#8211; Are you (or your developers) sick?<\/a> covers a major problem in software development in a somewhat humorous fashion. I&#8217;ve seen several variations of this problem, but I never thought of it as an illness.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are appalled at the article and who consider the author to be a heretic, you might to step over to another article in the same issue. In <a title=\"ACM Queue - The Fever is Real -\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acmqueue.com\/modules.php?name=Content&amp;pa=showpage&amp;pid=131\">ACM Queue &#8211; The Fever is Real &#8211;<\/a>, Grady Booch comments on the UML Fever, both the article and the affliction.<\/p>\n<p>Another good piece of commentary on the subject is <a title=\"java.net: Death by UML-more [April 23, 2004]\" href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.java.net\/pub\/wlg\/1227\">java.net: Death by UML-more [April 23, 2004]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing to take away from all of these articles is that UML is a tool (or a set of tools), not a life style, not a religion, and certainly not a solution to all problems everywhere. I&#8217;ll be glad when more people use the tool was it was intended, instead of using in yet another round of holy wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACM Queue often has very insightful articles, and this one is no exception. The article ACM Queue &#8211; Death by UML Fever &#8211; Are you (or your developers) sick? covers a major problem in software development in a somewhat humorous fashion. I&#8217;ve seen several variations of this problem, but I never thought of it as\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/2004\/04\/a-report-on-uml-fever\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[151,162,213,347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}