Month: December 2013

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Industry Ideals Disconnect

There’s an alarming large disconnect between what our industry preaches as ideals, and what it actually produces. Ultimately, I believe this stems from developers wanting or needing to just get shit done. Working code is seemingly good enough, and anything…

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Preparing for the last 10 percent

Most developers have experienced it before… the dreaded last 10%. At the start, you blast through the initial planning… most entities and processes are seemingly-well defined. The middle goes the usual speed with some ups and downs. Then, the end…

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Interface Bandwidth Utilization

How efficient are you at utilizing your interface’s communication bandwidth? As programmers, we communicate our intentions through our keyboard/mouse and into a text editor. Similar to writers, we primarily use the keyboard, and have 10 fingers to rapidly convert our…