Ego Driven Development
Ego Driven Development, (EDD), is a software development anti-pattern where developers and managers repeatedly act as if established best practices do not apply to them, to the detriment of their organization. Institutional ego is most often to bl…
Learn That New Programming Language The Startup Way: For Intermediate Devs
I have a method I use for rapidly learning new programming languages that I wanted to share because I have not really seen it documented anywhere else. This technique is not for the faint of heart, but it is a lot of fun. Many of you old hands and…
Quality Is Future Speed
Lately, I have been deliberating on quality vs. speed. Throughout my career, I have worked with developers who basically consider quality to be a programmer’s vice, an extravagance only for the navel-gazing idealists. I have also worked with devel…
Neat Firefox Trick
I am a lazy lazy man, and as such I do not like to waste time waiting for things or doing dumb stuff.One place this is evident is in the browser. I like to know the cool shortcuts and tricks to speed me along my way, and Firefox has tons. Here are…
