Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Go to their site and check out the original! If you like this post, there are a lot of good ones there by a variety of authors, on topics like code review, API design, testing, and more. Here’s a thought exercise for you. Should…
Usually I fly home from client sites late in the day, but the whims of fate had me driving home instead, early (for me, anyway) this morning. The end result was a pocket of uncommon free time this evening, before resuming long days and seemingly non-stop travel on the morrow. Naturally, I wasted this free time poking…
Mostly, I try to stay away from semantic quibbling and I almost always try to stay away from anything sensational, so please forgive me in advance. I’m taking a hard line of sorts with a blog post entitled, “stop geeking out.” and I’m somewhat doing so for effect. But this is coming from a place of…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Go take a look at the original here, at their site. If you like posts about collaboration, code review, and other topics, take a look around while you’re there. Legacy code is sort of like your house’s storage crawlspace. It tends to be a…
The conversation that follows this paragraph is a dramatization. But it’s a composite of actual conversations that I’ve held, distilled and focused. And I think it will illustrate why I believe we need a taxonomy of software consultants. “What do you do?” “Oh, I’m a software consultant.” “Oh, nice. So, what, you like, go out…
