Slosh
… is not a word that you’ve likely encountered too often. It happens to be an alias for the ubiquitous backslash. Now as a programmer, I’ve come to react to certain ASCII characters instinctively: #...
View ArticleArchitecture Revisited
For a while now, at work I’ve been in a kind of limbo; not quite an architect, not quite a developer, a pinch of project manager and a a sprinkle of business analyst. To tell the truth, as of...
View ArticleCheating at Word Games
After a gruelling end of 2011, I’ve finally had an opportunity to have some time off. When you’re head down having to deal with the stress of trying to reach a deadline, other things tend to get...
View ArticleCheating at Word Games, Part 2
In a previous post, I detailed how to cheat at a popular Zynga game which is a play on the age-old hangman, but with cute balloons (the style of which you can upgrade with purchasable coins). I...
View ArticleTo Buffer or Not To Buffer
The other day I was reviewing some code, and I came across a change that had been made recently to an existing method that was essentially responsible for copying a template file from one location to...
View ArticleAgility as Religion, Part 1
Any significant change in an organisation only has a chance of becoming permanent with the committed backing of senior management. Of course I’m no sociologist, but I’m fairly certain that this pattern...
View ArticleAgility as Religion, Part 2
Last week I waxed lyrical on the circumstances that are necessary for real change in an organisation and the inevitable challenge that pursuers of agile methods are faced with in light of these...
View ArticleAgility as Religion, Part 3
It’s been some time coming now, but if you’ve been reading this track you would have heard a whole lot of things about the nature of corporate governance and the associated challenges of getting agile...
View ArticleCapability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
My job affords me the opportunity to dive into all sorts of things. Sooner or later, if you work in ICT, unless you’re a very small outfit, you’ll bump into some or other governance framework. In...
View ArticleThe Documentation Problem
Last week I talked about one of the ways in which a software development organisation can assess where they sit on an industry-recognised maturity scale, that is: the maturity model set out by the...
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