Tag Archives: software development

Accept Failure

Posted on June 3, 2016 by way0utwest

Today’s Editorial was originally published on Feb 22, 2012. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. We don’t expect ourselves to be perfect, do we? Is there ever any project you tackle that you might not complete? … Continue reading →

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Great Developers

Posted on May 30, 2016 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally publised on March 12, 2012. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. Is a great software developer worth 100 average ones? On one hand I think there are some good arguments that it’s not … Continue reading →

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The Complexity of Branches

Posted on May 19, 2016 by way0utwest

Branching code is hard.  Well, branching isn’t hard. Just right click in some GUI or or type “git branch” and off you go. The actual branching of code is pretty simple and painless. In some sense, branching might be too … Continue reading →

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What is the True Version of Code?

Posted on February 1, 2016 by way0utwest

As I’ve been working on more development tasks, I regularly hear from developers that a version control system (VCS) is the “true” version of our code. We should always look to a VCS for the actual code that we need … Continue reading →

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