Developer Experience

Useful Naming Conventions

In my regular web wanderings recently, I found a great post entitled "The 7 Worst Verbs Programmers Use In Function…

When I wrote about the Broken Window Fallacy in Software Development a while back, it appears that there were a…

As a group, us software developers can be reactive. Generally we learn things the hard way. Every one of us…

… is the worst possible thing you can be. One of the aspects of the work that I do is…

After my post last week on "The Broken Window Fallacy in Software", it was clear that there was a misunderstanding.…

With all due respect to Fred Brooks and his seminal work – The Mythical Man Month – I think there's…

While I don't consider myself an economic genius, I like to think that I have an understanding of base principles*.…

I've thrown around the term more and more lately, sometimes it results in blank stares, sometimes knowing chuckles, but more…

A couple weeks ago, I started on a bit of tirade discussion about version control that turned into a short…

A few days ago, I wrote the third in a series of "Version Control and You" and referenced Ben Collins-Sussman's…