In "Talent is Overrated", Geoff Colvin at one point discusses how superstars in many fields use the memory technique of "chunking" to boost their short term memory.
His simple example is the 13-letter word "lexicographer". To you and I (assuming you speak English and have a decent vocabulary), it is ...
(Apologies to Stephen R Covey for the title...)
Through some odd coincidence these posts crossed my path recently:
What I got to ...
I'm working on a set of Django apps right now. Here are some of the things I'm doing to filter out defects as I work:
I do a handwritten (paper) design. I like to design offline — I find that this forces me to do two things ...
I just read Scott Bellware's [Productivity: It Comes from Software Design Rather than Software Tools][].
These bullet points — the core of his argument — are excellent (quoted here): > - Design quality is the most important factor influencing > productivity in software development > - The things that obstruct quality degrade productivity > - The reductions in ...
Here are five reasons you should wait before moving on to the next phase of your software development process:
Jason Cohen of Smart Bear Software has a brilliant blog. His post on QA vs. QC is something I've talked about in the past. I love his example of the Pringles manufacturing line discarding off-color chips -- it's a concrete, understandable way to define the difference between QA and ...
Here are some simple things you can do - today - to find and prevent bugs in your code. These take very little effort to implement and do not cost any money. (And typically don't require management approval.)
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