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…
Tag: technical debt
Technical Debt Doesn’t Disappear
A few weeks ago at the PHPBenelux Conference, I gave my presentation on the rebirth of dotProject as web2project where…
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…
Defending Against the 2nd Worst Developer
A few months ago, I heard an interesting idea about the 2nd Worst Developer. It's wrapped up in a simple…
Managing Technical Debt
Technical debt is simply: The amount of time, money, or effort it takes to work around, manage, and fix bad…
A Foundation or an Anchor?
Once you have code out the door, once you have customers, once you have people actually wanting to give you…
Never Rebuild!?
When I wrote about the Broken Window Fallacy in Software Development a while back, it appears that there were a…
Broken Windows… A clarification
After my post last week on "The Broken Window Fallacy in Software", it was clear that there was a misunderstanding.…
The Broken Window Fallacy in Software
While I don't consider myself an economic genius, I like to think that I have an understanding of base principles*.…
The Bionic App: We Can Rebuild It, We Have the Technology
All slides are Creative Commons licensed…. give me credit, modify as needed, you can't use them commercially. If you caught…