I was talking to a LabVIEW Developer the other day. During a casual conversation, he mentioned he had recently looked back at some of his old code and it made him cringe. As soon as he said that, he acted kind of embarrassed, like he shouldn't have admitted to that to me. He acted like it was...
I was recently interviewed by Scott and Andrea of Legacy Code Rocks. We had a really great conversation about software engineering and dealing with legacy code. It was really enjoyable. I think we hit on some important topics. There are a lot of good insights. It is worth taking a listen.
You may have noticed that we've updated our website. The old site was getting kind of dated. I hired a marketing guy a few years and it's been on our list of things to do ever since, but we finally got around to it.
We've moved from WordPress to Kajabi. It hasn't been painless. It was a lot of...
This Joel article came out after the Joel Test. One of the aspects of the Joel Test is having a spec. Apparently, Joel got some pushback on that so he launched into a series of articles on Painless Functional Specs. This is the first.
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I met Julien Delange a few months ago. He runs a company called codiga.io It is a support tool to help developers write better code. It is a web based tool that acts kind of like VI analyzer and will analyze your code and flag problems and make suggestions. It also has some IDE integrations....
I was listening to an interview with Mary and Tom Poppendieck on Mob Mentality. Mary had some very interesting thoughts about adding features.
Mary starts by making a very simple observation. As projects grow larger they inherently get more complex and that complexity makes it harder...
Being a programmer, cybersecurity is an important topic. I’ve been interested in it for a while. I listen to Security Now and Darknet Diaries and have been to various hackathons. I even signed up for HackerOne. I felt like I’ve just been dabbling in it though. This book is...
So here is another article inspired by Joel on Software. In this article, titled The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!), Joel talks about the importance of understanding Unicode and...
I recently read XP Explained. It had a section on page 109 where it talked about simplicity. I often talk about the importance of simplicity. In fact, it’s on my list of fundamental assumptions about coding. In XP Explained, Kent Beck lists 4 criteria to evaluate how...
Given all the stuff going on in Ukraine right now, this is a highly relevant book. The author tracks down a group of Russian Hackers called Sandworm (a reference to Dune). They are part of the GRU. They were responsible for a variety of attacks, mostly centered around Ukraine and their...
This book is considered a classic for a reason. It’s inspired a lot of coders over the years. I think the first time I had heard about it was from Stephen Loftus Mercer talking about pair programming. I’ve heard a lot about XP over the years since then and thought I had a...
