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Your Company's Next Senior Software Architect???
02 July 09 04:08 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

I would *love* to join a new and exciting software development team that has a single-minded focus on delivering high-quality software products to great customers. Perhaps that team is working in your company! Please have a look at my resume (http://weblogs...

Filed under: [.NET C#], [Languages], [Software Architecture], [Human Factor], [SoftDev], [General], [ASP.NET], [TDD], [GameDev], [.NET]

[Laws] Tobler's Metrics of Civilization
14 August 06 02:51 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Here is a gift for those who care: Tobler's Metrics of Civilization

Filed under: [Human Factor], [General], [Laws]

[Human Factor] Tobler's Elixir
14 August 06 02:27 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

This is to record something fundamentally important that I wrote long ago. "Tears are the elixir by means of which roses may emerge from thorns."

Filed under: [Human Factor], [General]

[Laws] John Tobler's "Not About" Law
19 April 06 08:10 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

This law is very general but does have application to software development, as well: John Tobler's "Not About" Law .

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Reference], [Human Factor], [SoftDev], [General], [ASP.NET], [Laws]

[Laws] New Rules!
18 April 06 09:22 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

Here are two new additions to John Tobler's Fun-duh-mental Laws and Rules : John Tobler's Exemplary Emulation Rule John Tobler's Really Readit Rule Enjoy!

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Reference], [Human Factor], [Articles], [SoftDev], [General], [ASP.NET], [Laws]

[Laws] John Tobler's Fun-duh-mental Laws and Rules
13 April 06 03:55 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Now that I have three laws and a corollary under my belt, it's time to start my list: John Tobler's Fun-duh-mental Laws and Rules Keep watching, I'm sure the list will grow!

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Languages], [Reference], [Human Factor], [Articles], [SoftDev], [Refactoring], [General], [ASP.NET], [Laws]

[Laws] John Tobler's "Three Strikes" Refactoring Rule
13 April 06 03:51 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Another C# code review has just led me to state John Tobler's "Three Strikes" Refactoring Rule I hope you will find it useful; it summarizes a lifetime of ex-perience!

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Reference], [Human Factor], [Articles], [SoftDev], [Refactoring], [General], [ASP.NET], [Laws]

[Laws] John Tobler's Law of Tradeoffs
12 April 06 03:34 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Until otherwise advised, I have laid claim to John Tobler's Law of Tradeoffs This joins the personal list of laws I started with "John Tobler's Law."

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Reference], [Human Factor], [Articles], [SoftDev], [General], [ASP.NET], [Laws]

[GameDev] About "Flow in Games"
20 March 06 11:50 AM | CSharpener | 6 comment(s)

First, go play flOw ! It is not usual, these days, to see a truly impressive game emerge from a single mind or a small group of minds. Neither is it common to see such a game achieve that much sought after quality known as "immersion" using little more...

Filed under: [Human Factor], [SoftDev], [General], [GameDev]

[Tools] PocketMod - Little White Notebooks for You and Me
16 February 06 03:58 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

I am happy to introduce PocketMod , "the free disposable personal organizer," one of the coolest little inventions I have seen in some time. For years I have folded up 8.5 * 11 inch paper in varoius ways to make myself little notepads I could carry around...

Filed under: [.NET General], [Reference], [Human Factor], [Tools], [General]