Software Development
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Comments are for Losers
If software development is like driving a car then comments are road signs along the way. Comments are purely informational…
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What does Code Ownership do to Code?
In my last post, I talked about Code Ownership models, and why you might want to choose one code ownership…
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Fallacies of massively distributed computing
In the last few years, we see the advent of highly distributed systems. Systems that have clusters with lots of…
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Efficiency is for Losers
Focusing on efficiency and ignoring effectiveness is the root cause of most software project failures. Effectiveness is producing the intended…
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Login Tokens In Email Links
Your system is probably sending some emails. Sometimes these emails contain links to the public part of the site, sometimes…
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Git Explained: For Beginners
I’m working with Git now for about two years but only for my personal projects and those I have on…
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Code Ownership – Who Should Own the Code?
A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be…
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Debuggers are for Losers
Code defects are not planned; they are accidents that result from an inability to understand execution flow under different input…
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Polymorphism and Inheritance are Independent of Each Other
Flexible programs focus on polymorphism and not inheritance. Some languages focus on static type checking (C++, Java, C#) which links…
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