How the software industy is a lot like the porn industry: it’s basically just interested in a fast buck.

If people thought more about the people who read their code and acted more like traditional writers there would be a lot better code in the world.

Every good thing needs kept within some bounds of sanity, and that includes testing.

Some thoughts on what’s wrong with web development as we know it.

Finding good developers in India has proven difficult due to absurd market forces and a general shortage of well trained talent with regard to the overall demand.

Why bigger isn’t always (or even generally) better when it comes to picking which tools to use.

This very popular article tries to get to the heart of what distinguishes languages like Java from ones like Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk

A discussion of how to control complexity in software projects.

At one time or another each of us has encountered code that is unreadable, hacked-to-hell, bloated-beyond-belief, or otherwise just plain evil… This post attempts to describe why it’s so hard to pin down exactly what makes bad code hard to define.