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Archive for October, 2008

Breakfast Seminars

Posted by Andres on October 30th, 2008

We believe that speaking at conferences are very good ways to get our message across to people. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough conferences to satisfy us. So we’re holding a series of seminars, where we speak on subjects that are near and dear to us. Next up is Chris, who’s going to be speaking about how [...]

Does distributed development really make sense?

Posted by Andres on October 24th, 2008

Developing software is all about moving ideas and knowledge between minds. It’s beautiful and scary because software is just that – ideas manifested into semi-existence in the form of electrical signals in a machine. Knowledge is the key here. We need many different types of knowing to build systems. We need to digest the thousands [...]

Distributed development doesn’t work

Posted by Andres on October 22nd, 2008

Teams working in multiple locations set them self up for failure. The tax that they force on their projects is so big that it’s hard to come back from it. I recently read a book about how important learning is to software development. It’s one of those rare books that make you say “of course! [...]