02.25.07 - 09:25pm
Related to Rapid Application Development vs. Big Design Up Front is the question of what exact format the UI design work should be done in.
This is more important than user stories vs. use cases, class diagrams vs. ERDs and other such decisions, because UI design artifacts are the most user-accessible artifacts. That means they’re probably […]
02.20.07 - 04:53am
Having just read Why you need to get rid of your freelance developer ASAP, and the comments under it, I can see that people are really clueless about offshoring. It’s a magic box that you put pennies in, and great code comes out a few weeks later!
Having worked for a few companies that sold themselves […]
01.29.07 - 10:21pm
To: pontin@nytimes.com
Regarding your article “Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software”:
Your ignorance of the reality of software development would be excusable if not for the fact that your CV suggests that you should know better. Your defamatory description of programmers smears an entire industry of individuals with a single, pejorative stereotype.
01.10.07 - 06:48pm
I’m working on a new project which I regard as medium-large in scope, and I’ve decided to use BDUF instead of RAD on it. This is of course heresy in light of the effect XP and Ruby on Rails have had on the web startup zeitgeist. (”Isn’t it all about RAD these days?”) But I […]
01.07.07 - 04:20pm
Joel Spolsky does a good job of describing why “there is no silver bullet” is true.