Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Let me ask you something. When you read the title of this post, did you envision it laying out some onerous process for converting gigantic Word documents full of requirements into “user stories” in JIRA? If so, I’ll set your mind at ease…
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…
About a month ago, I made a post here announcing a kickstarter. I created a character that has some popularity in the software development community and hypothesized that people might enjoy related merchandise. My wife had some time and an interest in exploring entrepreneurial ventures, so she created the kickstarter. We didn’t necessarily think we had a great…
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…
