About a year ago, I read this post in my feed reader and created a draft with a link to it and a little note to myself that said, “interesting subject.” Over the past weekend, I was going through old drafts that I’d never gotten around to finishing and looking to remedy the situation when…
I’ve been very busy of late, so I had let this series slip a bit by the wayside. But I was taking a break from recording my Pluralsight course to sort of mindlessly read tweets when I noticed this one: Most kids dream of being athletes, not coaches. So then does why does everyone want…
Not too long ago, I was working with a web development framework that I had inherited on a project, and I was struggling mightily with it to get it to work. The functionality was not discoverable at all, and it was provided almost exclusively via inheritance rather than composition. Runtime debugging was similarly fruitless, as…
Something I’ve seen a lot over the years is a tendency to locally maximize when it comes to automating processes. We’re software developers, and thus automation is what we do. But not all automation is created equally, and some of it can be fairly obtuse and misguided if we aren’t careful. And the worst part…
A Tale of Debugging The other day, someone came to me and told me that a component of one of the web applications that my team maintains seemed to have a problem. I sat with her, and she showed me what was going on. Sure enough, I saw the issue too. It was the kind…
