I?ve been removing a couple of dead features this week. You know, those features that senior people in organisations like to tell epic war stories about. Those mighty conversations at dinner parties, where a person involved talks about all the pain and sorrow, about how a particular capability ended up in the software, how (crappy) […]
Read MoreI’ve been working on a free-to-play MMO which has been “officially” live since last April, and things have been going well – a steady growth of players; the game itself has been well-received, and all the important graphs are “up and to the right.” Part of my job involves detecting problems before they become serious […]
Read MoreI always find it rather interesting when academics try to quantify generalized metrics about software development. Things like: per lines of code, there will be X number of bugs. Statements like: it has been empirically proven that “blah” affects the development of software in some way “blah.” These are all interesting thoughts, but software development […]
Read MoreI just want to get something of my chest that is bothering me for quite some time now. It?s not going to be a rant of some sort, but merely a couple of observations for which I couldn’t find the right words to describe things up until this point. In short: this post is way […]
Read MoreI recently attended this years Øredev conference and one of the things I had the good fortune of doing was to meet-up with a long time twitter friend, Philip Laureano. One of the days me and Philip started talking about a previous discussion he had with another attendee (whom shall remain nameless since I do […]
Read MoreHave you ever written an API or a method and expected it to be used a certain way, but then found people doing all kinds of bad things with your precious API that you never intended? I was working on building an automated testing framework for a welfare system in which cases could be added […]
Read MoreIf you have ever written code that is going to be used as an API for other programmers, you may start to think about writing code in a different viewpoint from what you normally do. Most of us write code for the purpose of achieving a goal. If we practice writing elegant code, we are […]
Read MoreI was recently asked to write a fairly simple piece of code.? In this simple piece of code, I didn?t handle a null input.? I was asked about what kinds of things I would consider about the input, and I pretty much knew what the asker was going after. What do you do if “null? […]
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