Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Validation and Verification

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Large software developments need as many checks and balances as possible to ensure a quality product. One proven technique is ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Community Adoption of New Practices

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Community adoption of new practices can mean a lot of things.  From getting a small team to try a new methodology or tool to convincing the ...
Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Problem Solving

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Beware of the person who knows all the answers: Suppose two politicians are running for president, and one goes through the farm section a...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Write Programs For People First

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In the early days of computing, computers were relatively slow. Almost anything that could be done to shave off a few instructions was wor...
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...

Avoid Side-Effects

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A side-effect of a procedure is something the procedure does that is not its main purpose and that is visible (or whose results are perce...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Avoid Global Variables

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Global variables make it convenient to write programs; after all, if you need to access or change x, you just do it. Unfortunately, if x...
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Avoid Tricks

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Many programmers love to create programs with tricks. These are constructs that perform a function correctly, but in a particularly obscu...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Store Requirements in a Database

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Keep in mind that the follow quote is from 1995. It is still completely relevant. Requirements are complex and highly volatile. For the...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Self-Destruct TBDs

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A software requirements specification (SRS) with a TODO or TBD (To Be Determined) note is obviously not complete. There may be good reaso...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Quality is #1

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A product with poor quality should not be tolerated. Delivering a product at the cost of quality should only be accepted in the short-term. ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Not Even In The Same Ballpark

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Not so long ago, a new Product Manager told me that she also is a programmer... a software engineer. She implied that if she wanted she coul...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Managing Technical Debt

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Technical debt is all the shortcuts that save money or speed up progress today at the risk of costing money or slowing down progress in the ...
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 ...