software development

Software Development IS Like Writing a Story

March 27, 2009

See the previous post in this series for togetherness. The reality is that people do write stories with perfect characters. While the situations in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books were broken and brought about by despicable (not many shades of gray) men and beautiful but damaged women, John Clayton (or John Carter) was pretty much perfect. [...]

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Software Development Is Not like Writing A Story

March 27, 2009

I’ll be doing another post replacing the “Is Not” with “Is” soon. In a story, you can’t have a lot of perfect characters. That’s boring. So when you write a story, you write imperfections into the characters, into the situations, into the fabric of the story itself. In a piece of software, you CAN have [...]

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Why C Is Better Than C++ and Other Stories Of Opinion

March 23, 2009

Opinion. It drives our society and our singularity. C is better than C++. Python is better than both. No, Machine-Code is the way to go. If you don’t use PHP for web you’re an idiot. Scripter? Please. Rails rules. Rails bites. Language Arguments suck. If you can get things done in PHP then major (Major) [...]

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7 "Must Answer" Questions For Your Product

January 22, 2009

This is part of an ongoing Series, “Joel Of All Trades”. It’s named after a little-known guy, Joel Spolsky, who has some kind of online journal or something. In addition to the core functionality of your product (You know, the important bit like What It Does) there are a number of questions that must be [...]

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Why I’m Not A "Mad Professor Genius" Programmer

October 2, 2008

Hi, my name is Stu, and I”m a .. ??? Two posts I”ve just read (thanks to Lindsay for posting them on FriendFeed) have sparked my mind into action. 1. Do you know any programmers that exhibit these personality traits? 2. How to get the most out of your Eccentric Programmer/"Genius" Lispy, the author, seems [...]

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Drawn To Development

August 4, 2008

Had another crazy day of brain-straining development. And now it’s 7pm, the kids are asleep, and She (using the word as in that awesome song, not the cat’s mother) is out at Bible Study. So what am I doing .. Developing software, naturally. Tonight it’s a mix of need and want. I need to do [...]

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Stu Talk #2 – The Best Set Of Tools

April 4, 2008

What is the best set of tools we have today? It’s not Microsoft Visual Studio, Adobe Massive Takeover the World Suite, or even any of the Social Media APIs. It is us, what we bring as individuals to our day. Simple, straight-forward and such common knowledge that it seems pointless and foolish to say. But [...]

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