This past week I finished reading the very interesting book, How Google Tests Software. I first heard about this book from an IT-Conversations interview with one of its co-authors, James Whittaker. The interview provides a good overview of many of the key points made...
I came across two articles over the past few days, both of which resonated with me, but neither of which filled me with much hope for a resolution to the problem they addressed. Ron Jeffries’ article, Estimation is Evil: Overcoming the Estimation...
I assume that like many developers, I first became interested in computers while playing computer games. Our family owned a Commodore 64 and I can only wonder how many hours I wasted collecting cave artifacts, dodging neighborhood obstacles on my paper route, and...
I’m currently making my way through Charles Petzold’s book The Annotated Turing. Petzold’s book, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware, is a must read for any software developer and is my favorite computer-related book. The Annotated Turing...
When I was first asked to manage a project at Art & Logic, I had my reservations. Did I really want to start down a career path that led to less development? Would my skills as a developer go stale? My first few projects as a manager were solo projects so I still...
