Technical debt – the truth
Within software engineering we often talk about Technical Debt. It was defined by elder programmer and agilist Ward Cunningham and likens trade offs made when designing and developing software to credit you can take on, …
2022
Size matters
When I started out, I had no idea about lean, agile or TDD. I did read a lot about Object Oriented Programming. I even thought I was practicing it. My first decade of programming was not what would pass for professional …
SD&D 2022
I had the chance to attend the Software Design & Development conference at the Barbican Centre this week. It was my first conference since the plague so it was a new experience. I will here coalesce some of the main poin…
Life is friction
Life is just people and things working together to make things difficult for you. Like on a rainy windy day where you can just lean into the wall of oncoming air and water and just push through.…
Transformers
What are the genuinely difficult aspects of transforming your software function?…