Developers are Solving The Wrong Problem
Everyone is either offended or excited about “vibe coding.” It’s all the rage and going to solve all your problems,…
Tag: software development
Refactor vs Rebuild: New Years make New Beginnings
We’re at that time of year where everyone wants to start something new. We have a flood of articles and…
The Ten Commandments of Open Source
Update: To be fair, a great deal of inspiration for this post came from Ed “Funkatron” Finkler and his session…
Do you follow Project Management ‘religiously’ ?
Project Management is perhaps one of the most fiercely debated and grossly misunderstood disciplines in the software field currently, hence…
Code Review Post Mortem
At last month's DCPHP meeting, we did our first Code Review. I wasn't sure how it would go or even…
Software Development Failures?
In my regular wanderings of the web, I came across an interesting article titled “Why Software Developers Refuse to Improve“. …
Bad Assumptions in Development
Quite often when I'm pouring through an old codebase or evaluating a new codebase, I run into a variety of…
The Third Rule of Software Development
Previously, I've talked about what I consider to be the first two rules of software development: The first rule was…
The Second Rule of Software Development
Recently, I wrote about The First Rule of Software Development. While it's central tenant is complete and covers the main…
You might be a developer…
Since I started my career in software development, I've read and reviewed code in a variety of languages. In each…