Showing posts with label Seattle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seattle. Show all posts
Monday, December 23, 2019

A Few Good People Are Better Than Many Less Skilled People

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This follows immediately from the idea that People Are The Key To Success , which says that you should always hire the best engineers. This ...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Ethical vs Policy Crisis

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This past Christmas I read a lot of posts from my friends about their kid's love of Harry Potter and their Harry Potter themed Christ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Use Meaningful Names

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Some programmers insist on naming variables with names like nflt or nFlight. The usual argument is that it makes programmers more product...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Know Your Application

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No matter how well the requirements have been written, the selection of optimal architectures and algorithms is very much a function of k...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Specify When Environment Violates "Acceptable" Behavior

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Requirements specifications often define characteristics of the system's environment. This information is used in making intelligent ...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Follow The Lemmings With Care

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" If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. " -- Anatole France Just because many (perhaps eve...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Don't Reinvent the Wheel

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When electrical engineers design new printed circuit boards, they go to a catalog of available integrated circuits to select the most a...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

Web Development Best Practices

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The following are techniques for maximizing website performance on mobile devices. Personally, since more and more mobile devices are being ...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Merciless Refactoring

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Many people are afraid to make code changes out of fear that they will break the code. To ensure you can safely make code changes you should...