First: Principles

I caught the news first from Bill Wagner's blog that NDoc 2.0, the documentation tool for .Net developers, was losing its main developer...

Martin Fowler discusses the importance of being attuned to the business side of software development. I especially liked this quote: I...

Ever done a process review? It's one of those things that gets done, formally or informally, when a software company is trying to grow ...

Looks like the build is finally up and running, and we've completed a few builds that testing seems to approve of. I finally moved the ...

(Backstory here .) Came in the next morning; VS2005 is still installing. Curse. The bright side was, as I watched it, it switched from a...

We had a hard drive die on our build machine. Not to worry; as we learned from the rubber chicken source code should be buildable and ship...

Jonathan Kohl writes on the value of pragmatism, as opposed to process zealotry, and asks what we think. Jonathan, I think you should enab...

If you are a student in a computer-related field at an Indiana college and looking for a summer internship, drop me a line with a resume and...

With basketball season finally over , I plan on updating this blog more often. I have a couple of series ideas in mind: first, I'm look...

I'm planning on attending this free-form conference , Chicago, April 7th and 8th. Drop me a line if you'll be there!

Here's another interesting article on code reviews.

So Dave Bost gave a presentation on Team Server last night. It was pretty interesting; it was the first time I had really seen a Team Syst...

I had reason to try to create a Direct3D volume texture this week. This article gave instructions on how to do it, but I think it must have...

(Thanks Lasse .) Corporate performance reviews are for the most part a waste of time. At my last job, I worked with the same set of peers ...

At the IQAA on Thursday, there was a good presentation on coding standards and reviews. I've always had a strong sense that code revie...

Wow, this is a handy little pattern library. (Thanks to Grady Booch .) I'm spending more and more time with Yahoo these days, for sto...

For a guy who has written so much good stuff on software development, I think Joel is falling behind the times. His latest post talks about...

I went to the Indianapolis .Net User Group meeting last night. They advertised Generics as the topic, and since I really didn't know a...

I wrote a while ago about how ISO can actually be used as a positive thing for a company, which I suppose most developers at the grunt leve...

When I complain about something, I do like to follow up if the problem is addressed, or corrected, or even vaguely not quite as bad as I tho...