The Programmer's Paradox

This is going to be a long and winding post, as there are always fundamental questions that do not have easy or short answers. Complexity is...

One of the great lessons learned -- long ago -- was that making variables ‘global’ in programming code was just asking for trouble. It is ...

Software development projects fail; often and badly. I’ve blogged a lot about the different causes so I won’t repeat most of that again, o...