Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Overheard.
There is no polite way to say this, but it’s true — BlackBerry smartphone apps suck. Even PlayBook, with all its glorious power, looks like a Fisher Price toy with its Adobe AIR/Flash apps.
Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him If you’re involved in tech, or better still write software for a living, READ THIS LETTER!
Source: bgr.com
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must
be the process of putting them in.
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The politics of software delivery
I just couldn’t agree more with Aslam on his post about politics and software. As he says so well, “… been there, done that…”.
There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it.
Joel Spolsky, Things you Should Never Do
