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…
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…
Intelligence as a Handicap
Programmers live in a bizarre world where laziness is rewarded and intelligence is a handicap. Let me explain. Most of us have accepted that the best programmers are lazy. They will complain whenever they encounter non-automated repetition or searching (you…