I witnessed a rather surreal series of events some time ago. A software group lost its line manager to the proverbial greener pastures and was sort of temporarily adrift in a leadership vacuum. The organization didn’t immediately backfill the role and the team sort of lurched on for a little while, unsure of who would…
There are a few things that I think have done subtle but massive damage to the software development industry. The “software is like a building” metaphor comes to mind. Another is modeling the software workforce after the Industrial Age factory model, where the end goal seems to be turning knowledge work into 15 minute parcels…
In this episode, I switched gears a bit to focus on the comparably easy task of moving pieces. I’d had enough of wanting to move pieces for setup, so it was time to take care of that. I also might (will at some point) revisit the test classes and perhaps consolidate to always starting with…
Once again I’m bringing you this code-cast from a Marriott, albeit a different one. In spite of a bizarre amount of noise over the course of the evening for a business hotel, I’ve managed to get at least passingly decent audio for this (and for some ongoing Pluralsight work as well). This is a pretty…
I’m going to perform a slight experiment on myself in this post. As I type this second sentence, I have only a general idea for a post in mind, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this will be a relatively short post. I won’t come back and edit this…
