Tag Archives: software development

What’s Your Code Quality?

Posted on February 21, 2011 by way0utwest

Today we have an editorial reprinted from Jan 3, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. I saw this a piece on code quality recently, specifically mentioning Java development managers and their work on quality. They seem to strive for it … Continue reading →

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Slow Fixes

Posted on February 17, 2011 by way0utwest

Today we have an editorial reprinted from Jan 15, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. There’s an interesting piece at the Washington Post on Microsoft’s delays in releasing patches, with some analysis showing that when the flaw is disclosed to … Continue reading →

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You Should Know

Posted on February 9, 2011 by way0utwest

What skills don’t you get taught about being a good database developer? If you are like most people, there is a whole list of things that are good practices for writing code, but you weren’t aware of. And like most … Continue reading →

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Operating in Failure

Posted on January 13, 2011 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Sept 25, 2006. This quote is great: “Any large system is going to be operating in failure mode most of the time.” It’s from Peter Coffee’s essay on learning from paper based systems and … Continue reading →

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