December 2008
27 posts
“The jet engines are produced by nine teams of people — teams that are...”
– From Engines of Democracy.
“It turned out that Merb routing uses a single if/elsif structure to recognize...”
– From Merb routing in Rails - Today!
“[…] the most effective anti-piracy software development strategy is the...”
– From My Software Is Being Pirated by Coding Horror.
“A person who works six hours a day but with total focus has an enormous...”
– From Hard Work is Dead. Call it ‘Work Ethic 2.0’.
“CEO’s who earn 5x the salary of the guys they are firing should also figure out...”
– From a comment by Halley Suitt on The First-Time CEO Recession Survival Guide.
“There is a certain cavalier and MBAish attitude in tech — and perhaps...”
– From Halley Suitt And Mary Hodder Smack Down Glenn Kelman.
“By following these three strategies:
* Keep dependencies to a minimum
...”
– From Managing software dependencies: a lesson from the credit crunch
“Fear inspires desperate actions. Hope combined with clarity and inventiveness...”
– From Fear Kills Businesses, Dead.
“Rules of Optimization:
Rule 1: Don’t do it.
Rule 2 (for experts only):...”
– By M. Jackson via Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive by Coding Horror.
“The other point I want to make is possibly more important: focusing on what VCs...”
– Traction or Revenue by Nic Brisbourne.
“By recognizing that software development is not a mechanical task, you can...”
– From the back cover of Software Craftmanship by Pete McBreen.
“As software craftsmen we have a duty to help to create teams that can sustain...”
– Apprenticeship Patterns Interview with Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye by Pat Eyler.
“In 1906–07, more than 90 per cent of the cars registered in Berlin were involved...”
– Autophobia by Brian Ladd via Who lives by the road, dies by the road by Jon Garvie.
“Road fatalities will be the third largest global cause of death by 2020 and more...”
– Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt via Who lives by the road, dies by the road by Jon Garvie.
“There are too many talented, yet short-sighted, developers who grab their first...”
– Apprenticeship Patterns Interview with Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye by Pat Eyler.
“Put the right people in the right environment and trust them to get things done.”
– Simon Baker via Ivan Moore in People over Process
“The point of a registry like this is that it does a lot of automated work to get...”
– From HumaneRegistry by Martin Fowler. I think this also has a lot of relevance for SaaS APIs.
“* Test the what, not the how. Concentrate on the behaviour of your object, not...”
– What is a good test by Sarah Taraporewalla
“Do you have a form like British Airways does to enable a customer to simply...”
– A pat on the back by Marc McNeill
“[…] one of the first responses to financial crisis is to cut costs, and...”
– From The Agile Recession Challenge - De-Bureaucratize!!! on the Agile Advice Blog
“Grockit is agile. Not in the biz-dev-speak sort of way, but in the agile...”
– Fom Work at Grockit.
“The reason startups no longer depend so much on VCs is one that everyone in the...”
– From Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession? by Paul Graham
“Imagine a software system where there is no need for you to spend your time...”
– Good Citizen: Least surprise, least paranoia by Dan North & Aslak Hellesoy
“If you’re using Selenium to test your application then you’re being...”
– Dave Thomas via Mark Needham - “he suggested that we need to define an API to make our application testable without having to go from the UI”.