Since I boasted about this on Twitter, I have to follow through. I’m going to do “Developer Hegemony Week” on my blog, leading up to the book launch on May 2nd. (I suppose this makes Developer Hegemony Week a misnomer of sorts, since we’re talking about 9 days of posts.) I can think of no…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re over there, download a trial of NDepend if you want to see some quantification of the tech debt in your codebase. I remember my earliest experiences with static analysis. Probably a decade…
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 give it a try — see if your code lies in the Zone of Pain. It amazes me that, in 2016, I still hear the occasional story of…
If you follow this blog with any regularity, you probably know my take on the job interview. One of my more popular posts asserts that hiring, as we know it, isn’t worth fixing. And, my book, Developer Hegemony, contains an excoriating treatment of job interviews. The practice started as a silly whim about 100 years…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the LogEntries blog. I would like to clarify something immediately with this post. Its title does not contain the number 7, nor does it talk about effectiveness. That was intentional. I have no interest in trying to piggy-back on Stephen Covey’s book title to earn clicks, which would make…
