Tag Archives: software development

Continuous Releases

Posted on May 21, 2012 by way0utwest

One of the interesting things that I find with my iOS app is that they are updated fairly regularly. I have 20-30 apps, and I would guess that 3-4 of them are updated on any given week. Some of those … Continue reading →

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Is Software Engineering Dead?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by way0utwest

Is Software Engineering dead? It’s a premise that’s in this article from Bloomberg. It calls the job a career dead end where job prospects decline after one reaches 35 years of age. I think that’s a naive view of the industry, despite … Continue reading →

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Being Responsible for Code

Posted on April 30, 2012 by way0utwest

I read this great account of how Facebook releases new code, and found it to be very interesting. Apparently the entire FB site compiles to a single 1.5GB binary at this time. That in and of itself is interesting, but their … Continue reading →

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Tabs or Spaces

Posted on March 19, 2012 by way0utwest

An argument among developers that might rival the NULLs/No NULLs debate, or even the comma appending/prepending items in T-SQL might be tabs versus spaces. I was engaged in a debate recently with a developer on this very topic, with this … Continue reading →

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