Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Check out the original, here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look around at some of the other authors’ posts. “We’re being audited.” Now there’s a sentence to strike fear into anyone’s heart. The most famous and iconic example of an audit…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Head over to their site and check out the original. While you’re there, have a look around at posts by some other authors as well. I can think back to times in my career that the source control that I was using (or not…
Three weeks, three reader questions. I daresay that I’m on a roll. This week’s question asks about what I’ll refer to as “how to de-brilliant your code.” It was a response to this post, in which I offered the idea of a distinction between maintainable code and common code. The lead-in premise was that of…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. You can check out the original, here, at their site. While you’re there, take a look at their product offering and blog posts by their various authors. I’ve spent enough time walking the halls of large-ish to massive organizations to have formed some opinions…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. Take a look around while you’re there and check out their products and other posts. In 1999, a man named Eric S. Raymond published a book called, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar.” In this…
