I read a blog post recently from Gene Hughson that made me feel a little like ranting. It wasn’t anything he said — I really like his post. It reminded me of some discussion that had followed in my post about trying too hard to please with your code. Gene had taken a nuanced stand…
In some projects I’ve been managing of late, I’ve noticed a continuous question cropping up: How flexible should we make the different parts of the system? I’m currently working with a bright crew of people, so they’re picking up on this quickly, but I thought I’d do a bit of a write-up to help the…
Weird as it is, here’s human nature at work. Let’s say that I have a cheeseburger and you’re hungry. I tell you that I’ll sell you the cheeseburger for $10. You say, “pff, no way — too expensive.” Oh well, I eat the cheeseburger and call it a day. But I’ve learned my lesson. The…
A bit of housekeeping…you may have noticed that the social media buttons look a bit different if you’re not accessing through RSS. The old plugin that I was using seems not to be supported anymore, and the Facebook button vanished for a bit. I tried out a replacement and liked it, so I kept it….
If, in the movie Braveheart, the Scots had been battling a nasty legacy code base instead of the English under Edward Longshanks, the conversation after the battle at Stirling between Wallace and minor Scottish noble MacClannough might have gone like this: Wallace: We have prevented new bugs in the code base by adding new unit…
