I was reading a blog post by Scott Hanselman this morning. The main premise was a bemused lampooning of the ubiquitous tendency of techies to create a resume “alphabet soup” and a suggestion that Stack Overflow Careers is introducing a better alternative. I was going to comment on this post inline, but I discovered that…
Code Reviews One thing that I tend to contemplate from time to time and have yet to post about is the idea of code reviews and what constitutes a good one. I’ve worked on projects where there was no code review process, a half-hearted review process, an annoying or counter-productive code review process, and a…
All In? It seems to me that most or many treatises on best practices for software engineering in this day and age advocate for Test Driven Development (TDD). I have read about this methodology, both on blogs and in a book that I ordered from Amazon (Test Driven Development By Example). I have put it…
An Observation Today I attended a technical presentation on a domain-specific implementation of some software and a deployment process. The subject matter was relevant to my work, and I watched with interest. While the presentation was, to some degree, dominated by discussion from other attendees rather than pure explanation, I followed along as best I…
Context I’m a member of the LinkedIn group “Software Craftsmanship.” I’m not an active member, but I do like perusing the discussion topics. Recently, I read through this discussion on whether software is more of an “art” or a “craft.” This set me to musing a bit, so I thought I would post about it…
