I was blog browsing a while back on the 47 Hats blog and found an interesting blog entry that speaks to a question I often see online from small developers: what’s a good process for me?
The entry, "Process and the microISV", highlights four practices that help with small developer success:
Hold weekly business and technical [...]
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I finished reading Dreaming in Code today. It’s a decent book, although it’s definitely geared toward the non-programmer. Even then, I did pick up the occasional good quote or reference while reading, and on occasion it was a useful exercise to relate their software development struggles to my own.
My curiosity piqued, I decided to check [...]
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A reader writes in response to Think First, Please:
Not to be rude or impertinent, or seemingly ignorant of how development works In Real Life, but don’t you have documentation of your interfaces to avoid this sort of thing?
It’s a good question.
It would be nice, but no, we probably don’t have the interface documentation being asked [...]
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One of the more junior engineers on my project told me today that he made a "mistake" with the task he’s working on: he tried to reuse code without understanding what the code did in the first place so he could go about properly reusing it.
The code in question isn’t a perfect reuse example, as [...]
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