Imagine that you’re starting on a new project. It’s all very exciting. The team meets, and together you plan your attack. You start working away, and you’re having a good time. Pretty soon though, you find all compromises, misunderstandings and bad decisions made in the code you’re there to build on. Welcome to the real [...]
I was reading this top ten list yesterday, and I thought I can problably come up with my own list of things no-one told me before I started developing software for money. This is my list. Object orientation is much harder than you think Maybe it’s just me, but coming from Computer Science class I [...]
Today I had an interesting discussion with a colleague. He was upset over some technical detail in his last project, and I said that it wasn’t a technical problem, it was a people problem. This ticked him off, and we got into a big debate about what are people problems and what are technical problems. [...]