First: Principles

I had to add different versions of a file to my installer today. Seemed easy enough to do - the files were available in the right places an...

Y'know, I'm not affiliated with Microsoft at all, although I own some stock and use their products happily. So I'd like to thin...

Chris has left LibraryThing . I don't know him, but apparently he's done some really good work for one of my favorite Web 2.0 play...

I got into a discussion with someone concerning the blogosphere and its effect on corporations today. Here's something I hadn't rea...

A traveler visited a city where many stone cutters were working. Approaching several, he asked the same question: "What are you doing?...

This High School is a model for high tech high schools that's being pushed by the Gates Foundation and probably some other places, and ...

Joel's latest article on interviewing is up. It makes some good points, although he continues with the down-to-the-metal idiosyncracy th...

Ordinarily for me, reading and writing blogs is an intellectual exercise. I'm more comfortable and interested in discussing software pro...

Dr. Hanna's Practice #8: Perform regression testing that is based on impact analysis. The first practice in the list that you can't ...

Dr. Hanna's Practice #3: Test for both functional and quality requirements. I would have thought state charts and truth tables were fami...

The whole conference I was at this week for me revolved around the requirements management process. Partly because many companies I've w...

I've posted about the IQAA before, and I regret that I haven't been able to make it to their talks regularly. There is a bit of a ...

Shoutouts to a couple of pages that have made my life easier in the last few days. We use CPPUnit to run unit tests on some of our VC6 appli...

I got a CodePlex project approved, whee. I'm pretty sure I must have grandfathered in since I submitted my request a couple of weeks ...

Crud! I got a call from MBNA to verify some "suspicious activity" on my credit card, and sure enough someone managed to get to th...

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...