Let’s be honest, we have a lot of code, right? According to guys like Michael Feathers: [“http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052”] "code you wrote yesterday is legacy code" and Jez Humble: [“http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912”] "if you’re working with that »
… the boy who cried wolf [“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf”] , the emperor’s new clothes [“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor%27s_new_clothes”], or the honest woodman [“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honest_Woodman”] - what do all of these have in common? »
I recently found out I am going to have a little girl. Given the back drop that my four other children are boys, that I was raised with more brothers than sisters and my chosen carrier is dev [“http://archcoder.com/page/i-am-dev”] let’s just say I have trouble »
Would you ever think a hand grenade thrown wouldn’t break, damage or destroy something? I think in software we tend to fight with grenades, blasting our way through things we don’t like. Have you ever watched a war movie where the troops roll in and they start lobbing »
I see this sign on the way to work every day and think: "really!? If the builders of the intersection know it's dangerous why don't they change it?" I imagine the response would be something like: ”It’s too expensive” or “you can’t »
I’ve been wondering... what it would look like if I could close my eyes and pull my physical application platform out of a 2D doc and make it 3D. What if you could take a game like minecraft [http://www.minecraft.net/] and build something like "appcraft" »
I was reading the other day when I was visited by a caterpillar. He was probably the size of a 0.7mm pencil lead. Immediately distracted, I was taken away from reading and drawn to his movements. A caterpillar is made of of a series of segments and devices each »
I’ve dealt with many communication failures in the places where I have worked. It seems that the talking really isn’t the problem or that TO:, CC: and BCC: really don’t play a role in the outcome of the purpose of the communication. It comes down to ownership. »
I recently saw something seemingly ridiculous: someone holding a coffee cup with the handle out. Initially I thought how could he go against the very fabric of social coffee drinkers but then I thought... “who knew?” The guy who built the handled cup obviously created it to be used a »
Build for what is, not what if. We are not building buildings (the seeming immutable and hard to change), we're building software. It seems to me that more often than not we end up having technical debt; not because of crappy code or inattention to detail (though those »
Being an architect does not mean being separated from the team. Ivory tower architects should be left in fantasy movies and books keeping common company with trolls. It doesn’t work. Not at all. To think that a person who is responsible for the entire ecosystem of applications in a »
