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Alaska Software Community 26 Aug 2013 | 03:22 am
There’s something about being outdoors in Alaska that inspires poetic thoughts. In my case it’s all bad poetry so I’ll spare you the nausea and just show a photo instead. This was taken descending fr...
License your code 17 Jul 2013 | 09:33 pm
A while back I wrote a riveting 3-part developer’s guide to copyright law and open source licensing for developers. Developer's Guide to Copyright Developer’s Guide to Open Source Software Licensing...
The Lawyers Won’t Let Us 9 Jul 2013 | 09:02 pm
A finely honed bullshit detector is a benefit to everyone. Let’s try a hypothetical conversation to test yours! “Hey, we should release that under a more permissive license for XYZ reasons.” “We’d l...
A Google Reader Replacement 30 Jun 2013 | 12:23 pm
Google is shuttering Google Reader in a little over a day (on July 1st, 2013) as I write this. If you use Google Reader to read my blog, this means you might miss out on my posts and I KNOW YOU DON’T ...
Platform Limitations Harm .NET 25 Jun 2013 | 01:17 am
Let me start by giving some kudos to the Microsoft BCL (Base Class Library) team. They’ve been doing a great job of shipping useful libraries lately. Here’s a small sampling on Nuget: Microsoft.Net.H...
SemVer 2.0 Released 18 Jun 2013 | 10:17 pm
One of the side projects I’ve been working on lately is helping to shepherd the Semantic Versioning specification (SemVer) along to its 2.0.0 release. I want to thank everyone who sent pull requests a...
Hidden Code Mines 17 Jun 2013 | 08:30 pm
Code is unforgiving. As the reasonable human beings that we are, when we review code we both know what the author intends. But computers can’t wait to Well, Actually all over that code like a lonely H...
Reflective Parenting 27 May 2013 | 10:57 pm
This post is a departure from my typical software related topics, but I think you’ll find parallels with management and dealing with software developers. Parenting is a skill like any other – it can ...
Applying Conway’s Law 13 May 2013 | 08:31 pm
In some recent talks I make a reference to Conway’s Law named after Melvin Conway (not to be confused with British Mathematician John Horton Conway famous for Conway’s Game of Life nor to be confused ...
Better Testers 23 Apr 2013 | 12:26 am
In a recent post, Test Better, I suggested that developers can and ought do a better job of testing their own code. If you haven’t read it, I recommend you read that post first. I’m totally not biased...
