The Programmer's Paradox

In the mid-eighties, I was very excited about the potential of computers. Little personal computers were disrupting those massive, expensive...

One of the pitfalls in software design is for people to only concentrate on the narrow case where everything works as desired, but ignore al...

While each line of code is pretty simple, and a few of them are not much worse, assembling big collections of code that behaves as expected ...

Code is a set of instructions for a computer to follow. But code also has additional properties, beyond its runtime behaviour. There are lot...

My very first experiences with different methodologies for software development date back to the early nineties. I’ve lived through some hea...