software-development

• The Agent That Won't Defect

  January 16, 2026

  Why agentic coding might be our best defense against the social dynamics that create tech debt

• Gen AI in Software Development, Not Coding 1

  August 31, 2025

• It Will Do Whatever Fool Thing You Ask It

  March 7, 2025

• Agents are Hard

  March 2, 2025

• What Is a Developer? Part 2 - Test Boundaries

  February 23, 2025

• The Bionic Developer

  February 13, 2025

• What Is a Developer?

  February 13, 2025

• London and Chicago Style TDD, A Design Perspective

  June 23, 2024

• Structured Semantics

  November 22, 2023

• A Quick Update - Trying to Dig Myself Out

  October 21, 2023

• Leveraging Iteration and Decoupling

  July 18, 2023

• Diversion #1: Agents

  June 11, 2023

• Diversion #2: LangChain & Pydantic

  June 11, 2023

• Complex Example

  June 2, 2023

• Thinking over Typing 2.0

  May 27, 2023

• Simplistic Example

  May 27, 2023

• There Is No Agility Without Technical Agility

  July 20, 2022

• Splitting Product Design and Implementation

  June 8, 2022

• Cross-Functional Agile Teams

  March 19, 2022

• The Work

  March 19, 2022

• The Work

  March 19, 2022

• Coding Is Social

  August 7, 2017

• A Nurturing Culture

  July 29, 2017

• Lenses

  July 18, 2017

• What is an Agile Technical Practices Coach?

  July 14, 2017

• Who are you?

  July 14, 2017

• Oppression in Machine Learning

  July 11, 2017

• Exploring Farming Metaphors for Software Development

  June 26, 2017

• Revolution

  May 15, 2017

• The Worthiness of the Fizzbuzz Kata

  May 13, 2017

• A Leaf on the Wind

  April 25, 2017

• What is a Hacker?

  March 26, 2017

• AI Programmers Will Take Our Jobs!

  February 25, 2017

• The Long Road

  February 20, 2017

• Act on Fact, Not Conjecture

  February 4, 2017

• Testing Against The Edges

  January 25, 2017

• 2016 Big Steps Forward

  December 30, 2016

• Why Kata?

  April 15, 2016

• Lightweight Accountability

  December 22, 2015

• Avoid Technical Debt with Planning

  July 18, 2015

• Technical Debt and The Big Rewrite

  July 17, 2015

• Wicked Code

  March 19, 2015

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Code Comments

  February 3, 2015

• 7 Simple Steps to a Successful Software Project

  October 9, 2011

• The Chaos in the Matryoshka

  August 24, 2011

• Decisions In The Dark

  November 24, 2010

• Cannibal: A simple Object permissions framework for Ruby

  August 18, 2010

• Software Development Is About People

  May 24, 2010

• iPhone Applications and Intermediate Tooling Considered Harmful

  April 11, 2010

• Apple: Thank You for Leaving Flash Out

  January 29, 2010

• Java EE 6 Mess, Continued

  December 28, 2009

• Testable Java EE 6

  December 27, 2009

• Java EE 6, Untestable?

  December 26, 2009

• Using Java EE 6, Without Java

  December 17, 2009

• Java EE 6 and Netbeans 6.8 Released

  December 14, 2009

• Agility, Software Development Estimates and Buying a House

  June 5, 2009

• Continuous Improvement: Tools or Process?

  April 6, 2009

• The Concept of Millitasks

  April 3, 2009

• What You Want vs. What You Need

  March 27, 2009

• Outsource? Yes! Offshore? NO!!!

  March 19, 2009

• Doing Waterfall Badly

  January 13, 2009

• SSL-Explorer killed by Barracuda ?! Forked as Adito ?!

  December 12, 2008

• Software For Business Is Not Just A Tagline

  November 12, 2008

• Today

  October 23, 2008

• Taking a stand, saying NO to software development quotes

  August 30, 2008

• Integrity, Transparency and Trust

  August 19, 2008

• VMware ESXi At Long Last

  July 23, 2008

• Wishing for the days of XML Deploy-time configuration??!!

  March 9, 2008

• Performance Profiling with JBoss Seam - Part 2

  March 8, 2008

• Performance Profiling with JBoss Seam - Part 1

  March 2, 2008

• Living with Maven2

  January 29, 2008

• Keeping A Lid On It

  January 9, 2008

• Learn Your Tools, Learn Others Too

  December 27, 2007

• Software Development Estimates

  December 27, 2007

• Database Queries - Programmatic Criteria vs. EQL?

  November 16, 2007

• Why, oh why, Wordpress, have you made it so difficult to publish code snippets.

  November 10, 2007

• Wow, this isn't the Web Services I used to know...

  November 10, 2007

• Property Binding in UIs

  October 31, 2007

• Am I a whiny little bitch because I want Java6 on my Mac?

  October 29, 2007

• Disappointed.

  October 26, 2007

• Sanitizing your input considered harmful.

  October 24, 2007

• Simplicity Lessons from EasyBrandingTools.com

  October 19, 2007

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Software Development Estimates

  October 6, 2007

• Keep It Simple, (Not So) Stupid

  September 23, 2007

• End User Experience - Why, Microsoft, why?

  September 16, 2007

• Using 'Open Source' Commercially

  September 14, 2007

• Unit Testing: It's About Confidence

  September 7, 2007

• Speak Clearly from Experience

  September 5, 2007

• Software Developers

  August 28, 2007

• How to answer 'What's wrong with PHP?'

  August 22, 2007