Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Rationale
Our small team has 3 developers working full time on various projects. We practice throughout automated testing and aim to get 100% code coverage with unit tests.
Our internal version control system is git. Active development within git means couple or more new branches in the central repo daily ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Rationale
I, being a software developer, team leader, project manager and,
generally, a busy person, desperately need time tracking and planning
tools.
More exactly stated, it's not the tool I need, but I need instant
answers to questions, whenever I'd like:
where my time had gone?
what's the closest checkpoint time for every developer online?
how much time ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Magic Ink. Information Software and the Graphical Interface
by Bret Victor.
Long, but highly recommended reading.
# Software design consists of graphic design (drawing pictures) and industrial design (allowing for mechanical manipulation).
# Information software is for learning an internal model. Manipulation software is for creating an external model. Communication software is for communicating ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Recently I've chatted with a potential customer.
He seeks developers to create a simple social network application. He spent some time doing this. Actually, a considerable time and a sizable budget: one year and a half and undisclosed amount of money.
Now he's got three different implementations of his idea. ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Yurii Rashkovskii recently blogged about the structure of (consulting) software development house.
There he suggests:
Here we come to a structure for a consulting company that I like. Instead of being employees of some company, professionals of different kinds (i.e. developers, designers, sales, etc.) could team up and define their rules of ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
See the writeup by Tim Ottinger:
Shoveling code
I was ill when the first snow fell last weekend, and didn’t get out and scrape the drive and sidewalks. Sadly, neither did I bundle up my kids and send them out with shovels. As a result, the snow melted and refroze. ...
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