Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re over there, download a trial of NDepend if you want to see some quantification of the tech debt in your codebase. I remember my earliest experiences with static analysis. Probably a decade…
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 give it a try — see if your code lies in the Zone of Pain. It amazes me that, in 2016, I still hear the occasional story of…
If you follow this blog with any regularity, you probably know my take on the job interview. One of my more popular posts asserts that hiring, as we know it, isn’t worth fixing. And, my book, Developer Hegemony, contains an excoriating treatment of job interviews. The practice started as a silly whim about 100 years…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the LogEntries blog. I would like to clarify something immediately with this post. Its title does not contain the number 7, nor does it talk about effectiveness. That was intentional. I have no interest in trying to piggy-back on Stephen Covey’s book title to earn clicks, which would make…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, check out GhostDoc, which can automatically generate help files for you. If you spend enough years writing software, sooner or later, your chosen vocation will force you into reverse engineering. Some…
