Tag Archives: software development

  Is a great software developer worth 100 average ones? On one hand I think there are some good arguments that it’s not true. One developer certainly can’t write the amount of code that 100 average ones can. However there’s … Continue reading →

When I started writing code, the applications I wrote for various companies would only receive manual code reviews from my peers, and then limited testing from a group of people that were usually bored and unchallenged in their jobs. More … Continue reading →

We don’t expect ourselves to be perfect, do we? Is there ever any project you tackle that you might not complete? Is there a doubt that it might not work as expected, or that it may need substantial rework? I … Continue reading →

There’s an interesting set of predictions about the possible new APIs (application programming interfaces) that we may see in the future. It’s a look forward into 2012, and a guess that setting standard ways in which we can build systems will become … Continue reading →