Reginald Braithwaite posted a funny take on the old saw about managers taking over doomed projects. Definitely worth the read, especially if you are stuck in a project death spiral and desperately need a laugh.
That said, I thought his additional commentary at the end was particularly insightful (see below)…
Billy Martin’s Technique for Managing his [...]
Hilarious but true send up of Programmer types by Guy Davis. Like Guy, I’m in the middle tier. Releasing a good library is a lot of work.
The 3 Levels of Programmers: Good, Lazy, and Bad:
most of us will never join the upper echelon of programmers who’ve built widely used and successful [...]
RefactorMyCode.com is a nifty project by Marc-André Cournoyer that allows programmers to get a quick refactor of their code. I know, big surprise with a URL like that, right?
For a full list of features, check out Marc-André’s blog, but I really dig hearing about what he learned in the process of using the tool [...]
Wow, and I thought I was the only one who ran my business like I was writing code!
I just found this wonderful little post from Eric Sink about managing the little quirks that happen in business and muses on the idea that exception handling might be the answer…
Exception Handling in Running a Business:
I think one [...]
Chris Poteet posted this nice little send up of web frameworks. Accompanying his basic explanation of frameworks is a good starter list of frameworks across a wide spectrum of languages and technologies.
Frameworks Round-Up: When To Use, How To Choose?:
Software frameworks provide developers with powerful tools to develop more flexible and less error-prone applications in [...]
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