Is software development a craft? I think this might be a decently long post, so let’s come back to that, to journeyman idealists, and to some of the finer points of what counts as “software craftsmanship” a little later. Before that, please indulge me in story time. Or, backstory time, as it were. About 7…
A few years ago, Hollywood produced a movie that I didn’t see and still haven’t seen, entitled The Fault in Our Stars. I assume this movie’s title riffs on a quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. And it is that quote to which I refer as a segue to talking about salary transparency. The fault, dear…
Once again, I’m doing reader question Monday on a Tuesday. I have no good excuses this time, either. We arrived last week in San Diego, which is beautiful. So, I’ll just flat out admit that I spent the weekend strolling beaches, eating lobster tacos, drinking craft beers, looking up at the stars and just generally…
Since I’m kind of an old man, in college, they taught me C and its shiny new cousin, C++. This was a CS program, so they didn’t ultimately focus on the language. Instead, they went on to focus on the theory of things: algorithms, data structures, reasoning, and, well, computer science. But they had to…
It strikes me that, lately, I write a lot about how to make it in a free agent world (or how to get there). So today, I’d like to switch up it a little and give a nod to those of you in the salaried world, and perfectly happy there to boot. But don’t expect…
