Technology

Ever wonder how all this foolishness got started in the first place and why? How big it really is? How many present users there are? The average time spent on a website? Here ar... 11/01/2007

Many developers, especially those fresh out of college (though older developers are just as prone), fall into the trap of believing in an absolute concept of “the perfect... 09/12/2007

One trap that developers need to be wary of is the mentality of the Hammer Truism . This states that When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This... 09/12/2007

There’s an interesting discussion in the comments on the Coding Horror blog in which Jeff suggests that Your password alone should be enough information for the computer t... 09/12/2007

UPDATE: Added a followup part 2 to this post on the topic of granular control. We have all experienced the trouble caused by plugins that break when an application that hosts th... 09/12/2007

With Ted Neward’s recent post on the morass that is Object-Relational mapping , there has been a lot of discussion going around on the topic. In the comments on Atwood&rsq... 09/12/2007

To properly license open source source code, the license agreement must be included prominently with the source code. 04/18/2009

Now I like to take shots at myself for producing drivel now and then, but today, I’m going to take a shot at someone else’s drivel. I really should be working right... 09/12/2007

A while ago I wrote that a client often often does not know what he wants until he sees it. I was referring to software development, but this is common across many professional... 09/12/2007

A recent confrontational thread within the Subtext forums that I shared with Rob Conery got us into a discussion about the challenges of dealing with difficult members of an Ope... 09/12/2007

Specifications are for the weak and timid! This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual Pentium processors if I am to do battle with this code! You cannot really appreciate Dilb... 09/12/2007

Patrick Cauldwell points out that the challenge of coding a business app isn’t in writing the code, that’s easy. The challenge is in understanding business requireme... 09/12/2007

A while ago, Jeff Atwood wrote about the merits of laziness for successful software developers. Lest this become the mantra of sub-performing developers everywhere, I wanted to... 09/12/2007

One common objection I hear to TDD and writing unit tests is that it creates a lot of extra work to develop software. And this is true, but it does not give a complete picture.... 09/12/2007

While we’re on the topic of appropriate analogies for software development, my homie Micah writes a post about how certain analogies fall short, and he compares writing so... 09/12/2007