2024
10
2023
11
2022
22
2021
18
2020
7
2019
17
2018
4
2017
2
2016
5
2015
8
2014
6
2013
5
2012
13
2011
40
2010
38
2009
24
2008
5
2007
15
2006
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2024
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SWEBOK 4 is out 15 Oct 2024
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We need better Tech Journalism 11 Oct 2024
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AI Acceptance Tests 23 Sep 2024
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Tests should Fail 18 Sep 2024
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Incremental Delivery? 16 Sep 2024
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Creating Permanent Documentation 15 Sep 2024
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Incremental and Iterative 13 Sep 2024
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Typing is not the rate limiting step 08 Sep 2024
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Radical Simplicity 06 Sep 2024
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Dreamhost Strikes Again 02 Sep 2024
2023
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Generative AI still hallucinates 08 Oct 2023
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Utilizing SQL 05 Oct 2023
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Getting feedback from running code 02 Sep 2023
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A sideways view of tech innovations 21 May 2023
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Software as Capital 16 Apr 2023
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Mocking and Unit Tests 12 Mar 2023
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More things Derek Lowe will not work with 25 Feb 2023
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ChatGPT - do not fall for the hype 07 Feb 2023
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Architectural Consistency - How hard can it be? 29 Jan 2023
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Python Requests library and SSL 14 Jan 2023
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Prioritization and Cycle Time 07 Jan 2023
2022
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More Dan North and CUPID 06 Oct 2022
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Simon Wardley's Blah Template 20 Sep 2022
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Choosing what to work on at the start of a project 18 Sep 2022
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Affordances in programming languages 11 Aug 2022
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Implications of Shift-Left for Quality Assurance 31 Jul 2022
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Automating system tests for Defects 05 Jun 2022
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Automating System Tests 04 Jun 2022
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Just-In-Time, Work-In-Progress and Kanban 05 May 2022
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Working As Designed and other stories 25 Apr 2022
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Architecture at the wrong scale 06 Apr 2022
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Testing emails when your app is not the sender 08 Mar 2022
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Test code is not Production code 06 Mar 2022
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Applying Quality Assurance to your Tests 27 Feb 2022
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Dan North and CUPID 17 Feb 2022
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Read Evaluate Print Loop - REPL for the win 06 Feb 2022
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Sometimes you have to read the comics 04 Feb 2022
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A neat Playwright Codegen feature 03 Feb 2022
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Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness 27 Jan 2022
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A legal framework for automated vehicles 27 Jan 2022
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When does Herd Intelligence kick in? 24 Jan 2022
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Year 15 of the five year plan to retire the mainframe 09 Jan 2022
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Hoping for the Best, Planning for the Worst 08 Jan 2022
2021
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Introducing pikchr for Diagrams as Code 04 Dec 2021
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A sample pikchr 04 Dec 2021
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A different take on autonomous vehicles 02 Dec 2021
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Just say no to software certifications 30 Nov 2021
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Interesting take from Tim Bray on Microservices and Integration testing 30 Nov 2021
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English speaking aliens/UFO/UAP 25 Nov 2021
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Another bad idea for the use of technology 25 Nov 2021
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Economics of Maintaining Tests 13 Nov 2021
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Hurl as an alternative to Postman 05 Oct 2021
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Craftsmanship and Engineering 01 Oct 2021
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Upgrading from Selenium to Playwright 16 Sep 2021
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Slow decision making as a failure mode for Scrum 09 Sep 2021
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Microservices, the Cloud and Us 24 Aug 2021
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Revisiting "Applying the Lessons of eXtreme Programming" 11 Aug 2021
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Hyperloop Delusions 25 Jun 2021
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SWEBOK 3 is out 22 Apr 2021
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PlantUML has a good way of visualizing JSON 24 Jan 2021
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Another take on Engineering vs. Craftsmanship 19 Jan 2021
2020
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Is Serverless a return to the days of batch mainframe processing? 21 Dec 2020
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Another take on computer security 21 Dec 2020
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Arecibo Observatory is no more 20 Nov 2020
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One take on the state of EdTech 28 Jun 2020
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University Leadership... 25 May 2020
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As time passes, only COBOL lasts 05 Apr 2020
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How expensive is the cloud? 25 Feb 2020
2019
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Affordances in version control systems 07 Nov 2019
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Are we getting better at estimating software projects? 27 Oct 2019
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Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto, UTC in database, localtime on web page 02 Oct 2019
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Elixir Ecto simple SQL Query 21 May 2019
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Setting up Elixir and Ecto with jamdb_oracle 20 May 2019
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Thank You for Erlang Joe 19 May 2019
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Blockchain - is it a good idea for some domains? 15 May 2019
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Rethinking Driverless Vehicles 10 May 2019
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Free and fair elections in the age of social media? 24 Apr 2019
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Time to revoke some corporate charters? 27 Mar 2019
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Cynefin Framework for understanding Methodologies 17 Mar 2019
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Learning The World 04 Mar 2019
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Another take on "How Hard Can It Be?" 04 Mar 2019
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Cognitive and Social Biases 02 Mar 2019
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The end of Opportunity 13 Feb 2019
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Interesting talk on Concept Mapping 11 Feb 2019
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Delayed Start as a cause of Project Failure 11 Jan 2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
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Drawing ER Diagrams with GraphViz 19 Dec 2015
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Back to the future (again) 02 Dec 2015
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Firefox is going to lose a lot of developers (and users) 25 Nov 2015
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Breaking news...programmers are not engineers 07 Nov 2015
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I had forgotten about the Coding Horror website 30 Jul 2015
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So much universe, and so little time 12 Mar 2015
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Kevlin Henney - Seven Ineffective Coding Habits 15 Feb 2015
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Craftsmanship in other fields 08 Feb 2015
2014
2013
2012
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Slides from Agile Calgary talk 07 Dec 2012
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Making a Game of Disaster Recovery Planning 16 Nov 2012
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What Programmers Want is Less Stupid 13 Nov 2012
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A look at the future of software development 12 Nov 2012
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Transitions II 21 Oct 2012
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Dealing With Transitions 20 Oct 2012
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Rules For Reproducibility 11 Oct 2012
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Long time no blog... 05 Oct 2012
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More Lessons From Outside The Field 16 Mar 2012
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Jim Bird's take on Technical Debt 17 Feb 2012
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Understanding The Value Of Code 06 Feb 2012
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Lessons From Outside The Field 15 Jan 2012
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Why isn't the source code as simple as the software? 09 Jan 2012
2011
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Appropriate Complexity 27 Dec 2011
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Some thoughts about the media 28 Oct 2011
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The Essence of Craftsmanship 19 Oct 2011
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Even the Onion gets on on the act 07 Sep 2011
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Science and extraordinary claims 02 Sep 2011
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An Inquiry Into The Value Of Work 18 Jul 2011
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Dealing With Aging Infrastructure 09 Jul 2011
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Some climate links 23 Jun 2011
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Another take on the Software Engineering idea 23 Jun 2011
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Magical Thinking 07 Jun 2011
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Understanding The Fundamentals 31 May 2011
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An Economist Admits There Is A Problem 24 May 2011
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Story About The Start Of Scientific Management 21 Apr 2011
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Strange error from RubyGems due to linux prelink ... 07 Apr 2011
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The Economist Gets It Wrong Again 01 Apr 2011
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Celebrating the day of fools... 31 Mar 2011
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Some History Of Programming 12 Mar 2011
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Celebrating 15 years of the Sokal expose... 04 Mar 2011
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TL;DR Soundbites Are Going To Kill Us 02 Mar 2011
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When the Low Cost Supplier Stops Supplying 22 Feb 2011
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Time for Intolerance? 16 Feb 2011
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Mainstream media is catching up with outsourcing 16 Feb 2011
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Limits Of Expertise 15 Feb 2011
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Outsourcing Too Much Part II 08 Feb 2011
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Using Climate Change to study Software Development 04 Feb 2011
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Ruby on Rails Gotcha — cannot always omit parenthesis on a method call 03 Feb 2011
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Fun with Ruby on Rails 01 Feb 2011
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Kanban for Software Development? 31 Jan 2011
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If you wait until it's obvious, it's too late 28 Jan 2011
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Productivity and Compensation 27 Jan 2011
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Software Craftsmanship Revisited 20 Jan 2011
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Rails Gotcha on Shared Hosting 18 Jan 2011
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Resizing Images for the Web 15 Jan 2011
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Setting up a Rails 3 development environment 13 Jan 2011
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Understanding Productivity 12 Jan 2011
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(In)Validating the 10X Productivity Difference Claim 11 Jan 2011
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The iPad does not appear to be a social medium 10 Jan 2011
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Best in class efficiency — because we didn't import the fuel efficient vehicles 07 Jan 2011
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Yes, you can outsource too much 05 Jan 2011
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jQuery for easier static site maintenance 05 Jan 2011
2010
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No, I don't agree with the manifesto 29 Dec 2010
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Introductory Programming Texts Need Work 10 Dec 2010
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Very interesting Chemist blog 16 Nov 2010
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Global warming humor 14 Nov 2010
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Approximate calculations 25 Oct 2010
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Redefining the conversation 24 Oct 2010
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Affordances in Unit Testing 07 Oct 2010
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Inmates are running the Asylum? 27 Sep 2010
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Not All Error Messages Are Informative 13 Aug 2010
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SPIEGEL Interview with Craig Venter 06 Aug 2010
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Separating Design From Implementation is a Bad Idea 02 Jul 2010
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The Rugged Software Manifesto is not a Parody 28 Jun 2010
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Software Development, Planning and Timescales 27 May 2010
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Understanding large numbers 16 May 2010
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Moving to Fossil 15 May 2010
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Fossil ignores files by default 15 May 2010
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Worst Case Thinking leads to bad decisions 13 May 2010
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Zed Shaw and Learning Python The Hard Way 09 May 2010
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Fun with XHTML 09 May 2010
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Interesting claims about testing SQLite 20 Apr 2010
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Wisdom from Neil deGrasse Tyson 08 Apr 2010
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A different take on climate change and the media 08 Apr 2010
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Solving the birthday problem using Ruby 07 Apr 2010
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Testing AJAX with curl and Apache Bench 31 Mar 2010
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{"Three choices"=>"Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering"} 14 Mar 2010
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Just read Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal 12 Mar 2010
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Seeking Simpler Explanations 02 Mar 2010
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The Onion has written a software manifesto... 28 Feb 2010
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How Can We Detect Slow Changes? 07 Feb 2010
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Chip and Pin Credit Card Vulnerabilities 06 Feb 2010
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Good process vs. Bad process 17 Jan 2010
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A tale of woe related to optimization 17 Jan 2010
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Browser standards and slow progress 14 Jan 2010
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Just because Zed is so awesome 13 Jan 2010
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An interesting python project 13 Jan 2010
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Why this site has the CO2 badge 09 Jan 2010
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A defense of the GPL 08 Jan 2010
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Still Questioning Extreme Programming 03 Jan 2010
2009
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Make Lists. Not Too Much. Mostly Do. 12 Dec 2009
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An amusing speculation about the Waterfall 10 Dec 2009
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Time to move beyond Agile? 29 Nov 2009
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Amusing quote from an economist 25 Nov 2009
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Software development as a scientific activity 22 Nov 2009
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Improving Documentation 11 Nov 2009
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Real Options 17 Oct 2009
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Uncle Bob on Test Driven Development 08 Oct 2009
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Pseudo random links 07 Oct 2009
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Artisans and Handmade Software 07 Oct 2009
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Talk About Being Late To The Party 03 Oct 2009
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So Much For "Don't Be Evil" 03 Oct 2009
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The Argument From Ignorance 22 Sep 2009
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Cooper on Agile 22 Sep 2009
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Certification just won't go away 22 Sep 2009
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Nice observation from Scalzi 20 Sep 2009
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Kent Beck's blog has some great quotes 20 Sep 2009
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What to do when the estimate is wrong 18 Sep 2009
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Decentralizing social media 15 Sep 2009
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Defending Software Craftsmanship 12 Sep 2009
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Masterpiece Engineering 05 Sep 2009
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Lecturing Birds on Flying 03 Sep 2009
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Which is better, an untested theory or not knowing? 02 Sep 2009
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Back after a long gap 01 Sep 2009
2008
2007
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Some quotes that might be useful 27 Oct 2007
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In Praise of C and C++ 23 Jul 2007
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Idiomatic Ruby 18 Jul 2007
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More Certification ideas 04 Jul 2007
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What does 25 years of improvement look like? 02 Jul 2007
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Rejecting Software Engineering 28 Jun 2007
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Hiring Good Developers 21 Jun 2007
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Craftsmanship and Certification 06 Jun 2007
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Uncertainty in Software Development 20 Apr 2007
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Sometimes I forget that I like Ruby 12 Mar 2007
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Backup script for typo blogs 14 Feb 2007
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Tools are interesting, important, and irrelevant 08 Feb 2007
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Doesn't everyone think about testing like this? 04 Feb 2007
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Professionalism and Engineering 19 Jan 2007
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Reality vs. Theory 14 Jan 2007
2006
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Philosophy of Testing 22 Dec 2006
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A classic quote 08 Dec 2006
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In praise of C++ 02 Dec 2006
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Everyday Scripting in Ruby 30 Nov 2006
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Does SOX solve the problem? 23 Nov 2006
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Wading through code 18 Nov 2006
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Agile requires discipline 12 Oct 2006
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What evidence do we have that Agile works? 10 Oct 2006
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An interesting design failure 09 Oct 2006
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Guess my answer to this 08 Oct 2006
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Remembering the users 07 Oct 2006
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Can "Thought Leaders" change their mind? 05 Oct 2006
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Seen a Computer Operator recently? 23 Aug 2006
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Requirements - Documentation, Conversation or Invention? 12 Aug 2006
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Implicit Constraints and Requirements Capture 11 Aug 2006
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What are requirements? 08 Aug 2006
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Immediate Gratification? 04 Aug 2006
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Why Improving Wetware? 19 Jul 2006