There’s a trend towards using the software build date as part of the software version number, you know the sort of thing I mean: ‘2011.11.4.xyz‘, like in the footer over at StackOverflow.com, or MyLetts.com.. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get Visual Studio to do this for us automatically on build? I thought so [...]
Read more →In order to answer this question, we need to understand the term “flow”. From Peopleware: During single-minded work time, people are ideally in a state that psychologists call flow. Flow is a condition of deep, nearly meditative involvement. In this state, there is a gentle sense of euphoria, and one is largely unaware of the [...]
Read more →Recently, our little software company was contacted by a local college, to provide feedback on the content of a couple of new software engineering and advanced programming courses they are looking to run. I saw this is my first opportunity to offer my assistance to those asking how should we teach software engineering? Hi Iain, [...]
Read more →I don’t think it would be appropriate to talk about Unit Testing without first starting with the bigger picture of Agile Software Engineering Methodologies. I started working to the Agile methodologies, as described by Robert C. Martin about 18 months ago. It was hard not to see it as a ‘magic bullet’ that enables the [...]
Read more →It was drummed into me throughout my software engineering training years – the essential internal documentation of software – the comment. After a few years actually engineering software, I’ve found that I can categorise most comments into 4 basic types: The obsolete code block, often with an accompanying note about why it was removed or [...]
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