todd hoff: Stupid Human ProgrammingTalk on software development.Announcing My New High Scalability Site- July 25, 2007 Announcing My New High Scalability SiteThe site is http:highscalability.com. And oddly. it talks about building highly scalable web sites and other systems. People always have questions about how to build a bigger and better website. The information is out there, but it's not easily accessible and often it doesn't make sense if you don't already know what you are doing. So, having some experience in the area, I thought the topic was worth its own site. Please take a look if you have the time....http://highscalability.com/ Gordon Ramsay's Lessons for Software Take Two- July 13, 2007 Gordon Ramsay's Lessons for Software Take TwoGordon Ramsay began a new season of tasty lessons for gourmet software chef's trying to run their own restaurant, err software development group. You may want to read what we learned in the first season of Gordon's tough love school of restaurantary. What new chicken nugget size bits of wisdom have we learned so far Always put the nights earnings in the bank. Don't cook everything on the same grill. Use separate pans or flavors from last weeks fish...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103955/categories/stupidHumanProgramming/2007/07/12.html#a248 The Golden Spike Pattern- July 2, 2007 The Golden Spike PatternJ Wynia wrote an interesting post It's Time to Decouple Your Development Process where he talks about one of the most useful patterns a group of developers can use, it's a pattern I know as the Golden Spike Pattern. The name comes from the 1869 ceremony that drove the final spike completing the transcontinental railroad in the US. The railroad linked the eastern US with the western US, finally meeting up at Promontory in Utah. Constructing a transcontinental railroad is..http://radio.weblogs.com/0103955/categories/stupidHumanProgramming/2007/07/02.html#a246 |