When I reflect back on my free agent career, it strikes me that I more or less did everything wrong. I mean, I don’t actually believe that when I look at it analytically. But it does feel that way, knowing what I know now. Starting a software company from scratch invites plenty of missteps. In…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, take a look at CodeIt.Right and its automated code review capabilities. As a teenager, I remember having a passing interest in hacking. Perhaps this came from watching the movie Sneakers. Whatever…
I believe that at two, you have to call it a streak. And so I’d like to celebrate my illustrious streak of reader question Fridays successfully delivered. Today’s topic? Freelance software development. This actually follows pretty naturally from last Friday’s post. Toward the end of that post, I pleaded with software developers to stop worrying about…
Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, download NDepend and play with adding it to your team’s build. Stop me if this sounds familiar. (Well, not literally. I realize that asynchronous publication makes it hard for you to…
Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the Monitis blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, take a look at their monitoring solutions. The term “API” seems to present something of a Rorschach Test for software developers. Web developers think of APIs as REST endpoints and WSDLs. In…
