The Programmer's Paradox

Some days the coding goes really smoothly. You know what you need; you lay out a draft version, which happens nicely. It kinda works. You pa...

There are two main schools of thought in software development about how to build really big, complicated stuff. The most prevalent one, thes...

When I first started programming, some thirty-five years ago, it was a somewhat quiet, if not shy, profession. It had already been around fo...

At the beginning of this Century, an incredibly successful software executive turned to me and said, “The dirty little secret of the softwar...

Sometimes, the software industry tries to sell products that people don’t actually need and won’t solve any real problems. They are very pro...