CODING HORROR: programming and human factors
CODING HORROR: programming and human factors by Jeff Atwood
(2009-08-09) Jeff Atwood lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, two cats, and a whole lot of computers. He was weaned as a software developer on various implementations of Microsoft's BASIC in the 80's, starting with his first microcomputer, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. He continued on the PC with Visual Basic 3.0 and Windows 3.1 in the early 90's although he also spent significant time writing Pascal code in the first versions of Delphi. He is now quite comfortable in VB.NET or C# despite the evils of case sensitivity. From 2005 to 2008, Jeff worked for Vertigo Software in Point Richmond, California. He currently works full time on his blog while building stackoverflow.com in a joint venture with Joel Spolsky.
Computers are fascinating machines, but they're mostly a reflection of the people using them. In the art of software development, studying code isn't enough: you have to study the people behind the software, too. -- Jeff Atwood
A few of my favorite postings at CODING HORROR...
{ 1 } In his post, Introducing Stackoverflow.com, Jeff states, "I refuse to become a full-time blogger."
{ 2 } Software Engineering: Dead?...
Tom DeMarco is one of the most deeply respected authority figures in the software industry, having coauthored the brilliant and seminal Peopleware as well as many other near-classic software project management books like Waltzing With Bears. For a guy of Tom's caliber, experience, and influence to come out and just flat out say that Software Engineering is Dead... Well, as Keanu Reeves once said, whoa.
It might be instructive to think of programming as a form of mathematics, at least for one reason: to resist localization... I have not found in practice that programmers need to be mathematically inclined to become great software developers.
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