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, check out GhostDoc, which can automatically generate help files for you. If you spend enough years writing software, sooner or later, your chosen vocation will force you into reverse engineering. Some…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Telerik blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look around at their extensive product offering. In a whitepaper I wrote recently, I talked about two hypothetical organizations. I used them to offer a study in hyperbolic contrast….
Last Friday, I published a post called “The Polyglot’s Dilemma”. I had actually had a stubbed draft for this post, “Always Be Leaving,” before writing that one. But it turns out that post segues nicely into this one. Programmers (especially polyglots) face a dilemma wherein the thing that makes them most employable (broad generalist skills)…
Few things seem as institutional to the programming world as what I call the experience tuple. A company needs to hire someone to automate something, so, naturally, it asks the software development group to make alphabet soup for dice.com. “We need someone with (C#, XML, HTML, JS, ASP, MVC, REST, Angular, AJAX) with (React, MSTest,…
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. As an adult, I have learned that I have an introvert type personality. I do alright socially, don’t mind public speaking, and do not…
