If you have a long, error-prone process, automate it. This is the essential underpinning of what we all do for a living and informs our day to day routines. Whether we’re making innovative new consumer applications, games, line of business applications, or anything else, we look at other people’s lives and say, “we can make…
Today, I’d like to make a post that’s relatively short and to the point. And it’s relatively short and to the point because what I’m going to talk about is so basic and fundamental that it won’t take long to say it. It is absolutely critical that you have nothing standing between the stuff checked…
Backstory I worked for a consulting firm for a while. We didn’t make anything particularly exciting — line of business applications and the like was about the extent of it. The billing model for clients was dead simple and resembled the way that lawyers charge; consultants had an hourly rate and we kept diligent track…
This, I’ve decided, is going to be the penultimate post in this series. I had originally targeted a 9 part series, finishing up with a “tips and tricks” post, the way you often see with technical books. But I think I’m going to add a 10th post to the series where I make the business…
There’s something I’ve found myself stressing a lot lately to people on my team. It’s a thing that probably seems to most like nitpicking, but I think is one of the most, if not the most, under-stressed aspects of programming. I’m talking about picking good names for things. I’ve seen that people often give methods,…
