“Why are people so excited to announce the death of software development paradigms?”
Thus begins John Mecke’s essay Agile is Dead (So is COBOL, XP, RAD, UML, SAFe, etc). It’s an enjoyable, step by step takedown of the {whatever} Is Dead new paradigm promotion treadmill. The key takeaway … is that you should experiment to see what works in your environment. Every company is in a unique place … Continue reading “Why are people so excited to announce the death of software development paradigms?”
Rule 23 in the Wild – Brent Ozar Edition
Always worth your time, Brent Ozar’s most recent Office Hours covers a couple of scenarios concerning my favorite sacred cow – database normalization. Does normalization have a big performance impact? Do foreign keys help with performance? Normalize until it hurts, de-normalize until it works!
DLL Hell – Same as it Ever Was
Everything old is new again. How it started (1998): And all it takes is a single DLL, VBX or OCX to be missing, or present in an older version (or even an incompatible newer version), for an application to fail. A poorly designed installation program, user error, registration error or change in the user’s PATH … Continue reading DLL Hell – Same as it Ever Was
UI Fails #3 – Evaluation Version in Prod Edition
The second born finished his online driving course today, and here is the certificate they sent. I’d like to say it was probably just an oversight, but it happened two years ago when his older brother took the course too.
Is Teams the worst app ever?
The Internet seems to think so. Genuine LOL.
If you aren’t making progress fast enough, maybe you should slow down
Via Friend of the Lair ™ Hawaiian Beard, Factorio shares their insights about managing code quality and beekeeping, but mostly managing code quality. The only way to go fast is to go well!
Stuff Devs Say #0
Developers are full of wit and wisdom. I’ll start sharing their quotable notables in this series. javascript is a neverending hell of critical security flaws that are constantly being updated
It takes more than engineering skills to grow in an engineering career
Camille Fournier presents a brilliant list of soft skills for growing engineers. My favorite and the one I struggle with the most: 11. How to give up your baby, that project that you built into something great, so you can do something else
New DBAs be like
Time to hit F5 and go to lunch…
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