Not to be confused with their previously undisclosed Morning Missle Semaphore Manager.
Development differences between Longhorn and OSX
Saturday, May 20th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Interesting behind the scenes design philosophies and stories from the SxSW panel.
How to write a good api
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Or the importance of being Earnest. Or Joshua Bloch. Formerly of Java/Sun. Now Google. I’ll stop now.
Quoted often, Rarely followed
Saturday, January 21st, 2006 at 4:21 pm
The mythical man month 30 years later.
There is no 85% done. Just done done.
Saturday, January 21st, 2006 at 4:15 pm
From slide 33 in “What works in Software Development”:http://mungus.schwern.org/~schwern/talks/What_Works_In_Software_Development/What_Works/
Given a large task to estimate…
Break the task down into a complete set of smaller tasks.
Forces you to think deeper about what’s really involved
These smaller tasks are boolean. They are either done or not done.
There is no “85% done” with a mini-milestone.
Estimate those tasks.
Few minutes to half [...]
The Departure of the Java Hyper Enthusiasts
Sunday, December 18th, 2005 at 8:29 pm
The Flying Elvii have left the building.
