Software Development

Managing Humans is the upgrade to “Behind Closed Doors”. It has some brilliant perspectives and concepts that I think would be relevant to anyone involved in the management aspects of software development. While I feel on the whole the book is brilliant, it also has a few rough edges that...

AWS Notes

09 August 2016

General Introduction

All models are wrong. Some models are useful because they are wrong!

06 August 2016

All models are wrong, some models are useful

Software Design - Why, When and How Notes

05 August 2016

These notes are based on Kent Beck’s talk on “Software Design: Why, When & How” done at JavaZone in September 2014.

Stage Model of Software Development

04 August 2016

Putting the product at the center of our process is a mistake.

Gnome Terminal Notes

31 July 2016

Enabling vi shortcuts in terminal

My revised three stages of programming

26 July 2016

I believe Kent Beck was originally attributed with saying that when he solved programming problems he went through 3 stages:

The one line method

23 July 2016

I recently had a chance for an interesting code discussion. It is something I’ve been wanting to write about for a while, a practice I’ve been applying to my code that I find many other developers find strange, and being in a new team I’ve been reminded of this fact....

Do you radiate vanity metrics?

19 July 2016

I once worked with an organization who had mastered vanity metrics as information radiators. They had a large development space with about 50 developers on the “floor”. When you walked in to the space for the first time it was very impressive. On nearly every wall was at least one...