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Archive for September, 2005

A smell not mentioned by fowler

How the publishing software book industry seems to have gone mad

Why project delivery bonuses suck

Project delivery bonuses are common, but more often than not they end up doing more harm, than good.

Three reasons to reinvent the wheel

Conventional wisdom says you should never do something that others have already done. I think this is taking things a bit too far.

A time to every purpose, even .net

How some potential C# features may make me eat my words when it comes to Microsoft and .net

Myth of the bigger tool

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

Flying without a net

How trying to be to careful not to let anything go wrong can sometimes be worse than accepting that things will go wrong.

Power to the people

An innovative approach to software power management.

Fear of code

How to use the things you fear in your code (or organization) to help you become better.