Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The Next Programming Skill You Should Learn
Change and growth are faster than ever in software these days. There’s Silverlight, LINQ and WPF from Microsoft. There’s AJAX, REST and Rails 2.0 in the web development world. Java has JavaFX. There used to be a time when you had to pick one language and run with it because it was just too overwhelming [...]
26 Comments » - Posted in Productivity, Programming by Scott Hackett
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
An Open Letter to My Software
You and I have been through a lot together. It doesn’t seem like that long ago when I was sitting and programming, nothing really important, and I said to myself, “Wouldn’t it be really cool if…?” And here we are now, only a short time from your gold build.
I feel like I’ve gotten to know [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Programming by Scott Hackett
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Software Schedules and the Parable of the Loaf of Bread
As the manager of a development team, software schedules and estimates are frequently on my mind. A couple of my previous blogs covered estimates: The Perfect Estimate and Software Estimates and the Parable of the Cave.
Today, I want to discuss a common problem that occurs after the estimate is delivered. Often, the estimate is [...]
