Dreaming in Code

I just finished reading Dreaming in code by Scott Rosenberg.
In this book, Scott tried to answer the question on why is building software is so hard. To answer the question he spent 3 years following the development of an open source PIM project called Chandler.
It was a very interesting book albeit it’s also [...]

Rules to better team members

I stumbled across SSW’s rules to better team members and rules to better project.
I haven’t read much of the later, but I read most of the points of the first one. There are good points there, although most of them are just common sense. Having said that, common sense is not common, is it?
I would [...]

Software Design Process

Waterfall – structured and systematic analysis at each step before proceeding to the next
Spiral – rapid generation of increasingly functional systems, short turn around time, quick turn around

If it were up to me, the waterfall approach seems to be more reliable to produce robust software however spiral approach seems to be more applicable for a [...]

Skill Divide

I was reading a very interesting article on Coldfusion’s Skill Divide by Brian Kotek.
He basically found that CF programmers mainly fall into two extremes those who embrace cutting edge development techniques (and software engineering practices) and those who “embed queries in their display pages”. I think his observations hold true for programmers in general. There [...]