The Programmer's Paradox

A while back I wrote a small product that, unfortunately, had an early demise. It was great technically -- everyone who saw it loved it -- i...

The way most people view software is from the top down. They see the GUI and other interfaces, but they don’t have any real sense of what li...

Programmers often complain about abstractions, which is unfortunate. Abstractions are one of the strongest ‘power tools’ for programming. Al...

Sometimes you can predict the future accurately. For instance, you know that a train will leave the station tomorrow at 3 pm destined for so...

One of the trickiest parts of coding is to not let the code become a huge mess, under the pressure of rapid changes. It’s pretty much imposs...