I’m still reading through the book Dreaming in Code. It’s taking longer than I had hoped, but sometimes it’s been a difficult read for me – not because it’s a bad book or bad writing, but because sometimes the author is describing something about software development of which I have enough personal knowledge that his [...]
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Neil Davidson of the Business of Software Blog posted an item the other day drawing parallels between software and writing tips from famous authors.
For instance, Hemingway once wrote that "The first draft of anything is shit." The analogy to software is that the first time you write code is certainly never the last. Or, [...]
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A co-worker of mine today sent me a link to one of Joel Spolsky’s older articles entitled "Things You Should Never Do, Part I". Joel hits on a lot of points in the article, but the basic premise is that you shouldn’t rewrite software completely from scratch, but rather you should incrementally improve it over [...]
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As popular as Nike’s "Just do it" phrase became in the 1990’s, even professional athletes think before they act. They just do it faster than the rest of us and their actions are tempered in hours upon hours of preparation. Knowing this, the phrase "just do it" is more of a reminder for the athlete [...]
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Funny how I start a blog and a week later I get sick enough where it’s difficult to keep up with the blog. I’ll be back in the next few days with updates.
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This is interesting. Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky are joining forces to create a new programmer resource called StackOverflow.com. They’ve posted a 46 minute podcast of their phone call talking about their vision for the site. It’s an interesting listen, even if you don’t go through the entire 46 minutes. As someone who has created [...]
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Harvard Business Review had an article in its April 2008 issue called Reverse Engineering Google’s Innovation Machine in which the authors revealed their research to uncover Google’s innovation secrets. Apparently much of the research was done through discussion with Google employees, reading Google’s public blogs, and other forms of public information, so it’s not like [...]
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I started reading my way through Scott Rosenberg’s book Dreaming in Code, which is the story of a software team’s journey to build a personal information manager to challenge Microsoft’s Outlook. I’ll give my full impression of the book once I finish, but I did want to mention that the book is well-written and targetted [...]
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The question I’ve been wrestling with is, "Should my first Code.Implant blog post be an introduction, or should I just dive into it?"
The introduction won over.
So, who am I? My name is Kevin Hawkins, and I am the Software Technologies Manager at Raydon Corporation, a simulation training company in Daytona Beach, Florida. I am also [...]
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Who are you?
My name is Kevin Hawkins, and I am the Technical Director of Software Engineering at Raydon Corporation, a simulation training company, as well as one of four Co-owners of GameDev.net, the leading online resource for game development. I’ve co-authored two books for Cengage Learning, OpenGL Game Programming and Beginning OpenGL Game Programming and was [...]
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