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It has long been my suspicion, that many organisations do not permit their application source code to be copied out of their premises, not because of security or IP reasons, but to just save themselves from sheer embarassment. Honourary members of the court, allow me to present exhibit ...

Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog is among all other software development-related blogs the one I keep the Unread count at 0. This chap simply amazes me with his near-daily rate of new thoughts and insights on matters concerning the computing field at large. I cannot imagine how much time I'd have to spend in order to accumulate a fraction of his ...

Found another developer who shares the same sense of dread about Regions. http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2005/05/23/DontLikeRegions.aspx

I recently gave a talk to my fellow developer colleagues which was ambitiously themed ''How to help your colleagues develop faster''. It was not some magic herbal tea or soup that instantaneously buffs developers with 100% increased speed for code churn. It was primarily dealing with the thought process that developers run through their minds when ...

Coding Horror has pointed out one of the key personality traits of great programmers: realising how one's own code sucks and re-teaching oneself to suck lesser every year. That is completely inline with my philosophy of refusing to declare satisfaction with my own work. I am never impressed by the code I write. For when I do, that is probably the ...

Friday night, 8pm. Hungry in the office. Colleague (as he walks off): Still staying? Me: I'm just about to go off, after I apply this one final patch. Colleague (with a smirk): There is no such thing as a final patch.

My mother's threshold for discomfort is very low. She often comes to me complaining how I can wear so much clothing in such hot weather, or demand I put on the layers to withstand the cold. Once in awhile I remind her, ''If you feel so hot, you can take off your clothing.''This is really not a case of parental complaint. The point I wish to ...

I recently got assigned to a project that implements a messaging architecture for sites to communicate across a geographical deployment. End-users in a site have a Windows Forms interface to work with a local application server, which then drops messages into a number of MSMQ queues in the same machine depending on the type of message: batch or ...

It should come as no surprise to anybody who is a developer that software development/engineering is an industry that still continues to struggle with its growing pains as people remain uncertain, undecided, and unconvinced over the effectiveness of processes and practices past and present. In that constant search for the Holy Grail of development ...

I can't remember how I came across this page of quotes from personas in the software development industry, but a good many number of them sparkled some chuckles of truth from me. I am sure the same will go for you.

Martin Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code:Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.And so, the reason why programmers typically spend only 30% of the time writing new code and features; the other 70% is wasted trying to figure out what the old code, ...

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