As a follow-up to my previous post on the abuse of software patents , here , I wanted to share a couple links to sites fighting against Software Patents: Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFI) A European site that oposes software patents League for Programming Freadom (LPF) An organization...

This SlashDot article " Parens on Patents" really struck a chord with me, and brought back alot of anger I have repressed for some time. (yes, I am seeking professional help now :p ) Basically, it discusses the fad of patenting software or its various features, and the subsequent stifling affect it has...

I am not as well-read of a developer as I would like, but I consider myself to be very intuitive at discovering and defining best practices in programming. I don't mean this as a boast, there is just a part of my personality that drives me to constantly seek-out and create templates and patterns to simplify...

ChrisAn makes an excellent observation of the makeup of a Healthy Team : Healthy teams have a mix. They have growth opportunities. They have a reasonable amount of turn over. A stagnant pond is a dead pond. Now that I work in corporate environment, I often can relate to this, especially in contrast to...

Based upon Joel 's recent post on the evils of Exception handling , I guess I have been foolish to worry so much about defining best practices in Exception Handling ... Of course, if Joel is correct, then it's equally an indictment of Microsoft, the .NET Framework, C#, Java, C++, and most other modern...

I saw this posted on someone's blog recently(sorry, cant remember whose), and sent it to my coworkers: The Pit of Success: in stark contrast to a summit, a peak, or a journey across a desert to find victory through many trials and surprises, we want our customers to simply fall into winning practices...

...are a few words that could describe my past year (or so) of blogging activity. I have so many thoughts zipping around in my mind that I just cant find time or motivation to go code, post, and purge them - I feel completely mentally constipated. Somehow I always seem to be bogged-down on focusing on...

Face it, the IT world is a tiny tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone either directly or indirectly through our own private game of 6-degrees of separation . So, why do most employers treat potential recruits more like pesky cold-calling-vendors than like valued potential future clients...

No matter how faithfully you try to follow your chosen project methodology (Scrum, Extreme Programming, Waterfall, CMMI, etc.) ultimately the strengths, weaknesses, successes, and failures you experience are determined by the habits, attitude, and style of the project manager and team members on the...

As a follow-up to my previous post on the abuse of software patents , here , I wanted to share a couple links to sites fighting against Software Patents: Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFI) A European site that oposes software patents League for Programming Freadom (LPF) An organization...