Patterns, it's about teaching people how to fish - Glenn Block ' In Software Development we know that the one thing that is constant is change. Some things may stay the same, but as we make new discoveries at the hardware, software language, and methodology level, change occurs '
Model Checking creators win Turing Award - Andy Oram ' Formal proofs looked great for academic exercises, but quickly became untenable when applied to real-life applications because of the explosion of possible states '
Instilling Quality in Your Teams - Ben Scheirman ' Often times (due to lack of quality in some of the other areas), quality can get pushed aside in the interest of getting things done. This is a balance that all of us must deal with '
Coding Challenges - Stumbling Through A coding challenge, maybe a good idea to do among colleagues. Not so much to show off your le33t sk1llz but to have an opportunity to learn from each other
Specializing Generalists and the Politics of Agile - Scott Sehlhorst ' A successful agile team requires someone on the team to act as the voice of the customer, someone to lead the developers, someone to lead quality assurance, and someone to organize, coordinate, and assure execution '
Dubious Interview Questions - Adam Barr ' A great potential hire might not happen to know much about VB forms; a "no-hire" might by happenstance have recently tried to create a .java file with multiple public classes in it '
A reflection on hate week - Leon Bambrick ' Let me repeat that, in case it's new to you: even very intelligent scientists and engineers, like you and me, continually dismiss and disregard important breakthroughs in our fields. '
The custom MSBuild task cookbook - Bart De Smet While not difficult, Bart needs a lot of pages to give a very clear description of the process ' Implementing custom MSBuild tasks isn't very difficult - all you need to do is implement the task interface ITask '
The Meaning of (Software) Quality - Jeff’s Post ' Quality is a two sided coin. Quality is about accuracy, but it’s also about emotion. Quality software must work. But it also must give something meaningful to the lives of the people that use it. '
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