Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. When I’m called in for strategy advice on a codebase, I never arrive to find a situation where all parties want to tell me how wonderfully things are going. As I’ve mentioned before here,…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. The term “technical debt” has become ubiquitous in the programming world. In the most general sense, it reflects the idea that you’re doing something easy in the moment, but that you’re going to pay…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. If you’re a software developer, there’s a decent chance you’ve been embroiled in the debate over integrated development environments (IDEs) versus text editors. Users of IDEs will tell you that they facilitate productivity to a…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, download NDepend and play around with it. In 2002, Joel Spolsky coined something he called “The Law of Leaky Abstractions.” In software, an “abstraction” hides complexity of an underlying system from those…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, download a trial of NDepend and give it a spin. I do a lot of work with and around static analysis tools. Obviously, I write for this blog. I also have…
