Many of you that follow my blog might also follow the work of my internet buddy, Jonathan Stark. If you don’t, you can find him, among other places, here, at an internet property called “hourly billing is nuts.” I agree with Jonathan on this premise. I run a content agency and I’ve never once though…
There’s no doubt about it: I’m locked in a mortal standoff with verbosity, and I’m not winning. Every now and then I go meta with this and vow to make some smaller posts to keep the cadence at around 3 per week, and mostly I don’t. But I like to think that these travel sized…
I have a relatively uncomplicated thought for this Wednesday and, as such, it should be a reasonably sized post. I’d like to address what I consider to be perhaps the most relatable and understandable anti-pattern that I’ve encountered in this field, and I call it the “Synthesize the Experts” anti-pattern. I’m able to empathize so…
I think that I’m probably going to take a good bit of flack for this post, but you can’t win ’em all. I’m interested in contrary opinions and arguments because my mind could be changed. Nevertheless, I’ve been unable to shake the feeling for months that code generation is just a basic and fundamental design…
A Tale of Debugging The other day, someone came to me and told me that a component of one of the web applications that my team maintains seemed to have a problem. I sat with her, and she showed me what was going on. Sure enough, I saw the issue too. It was the kind…
