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Nannies for Blimps! In the old days, the compiler was your nanny, because computer resources were expensive and delicate and huge, like a giant hydrogen blimp. You want to fly the blimp, baby, you better be really good at flight plans. So static-typing was one of several ways to prevent us from blowing up the [...]
Filed Under: Seriously Cheap Wins Why this is true, I really do not completely understand. I want to understand it, and not judge it, but I admit I have difficulty there. In the kinds of companies at which I have been doing agile software development consulting — coaching, mentoring, training, development — over the past [...]
Or, BDUF & Fast OO Karmic Resolution I’ve been chewing this one over for awhile, and it is finally ready for the world to attempt to digest it. Or something like that. (Ewww.) Why do our most carefully conceived UML diagrams of object models of any size fall apart? Wait. More precisely, how and when [...]
Refactor Your Codebase as You Go, or Lose it to Early Death Also, Scrub Your Teeth Twice a Day Refactoring is badly misunderstood by many software professionals, and that misunderstanding causes software teams of all kinds – traditional and agile – to forgo refactoring, which in turn dooms them to waste millions of dollars. This [...]