I’ve been getting some really strange questions on this blog like “How do I Write Software?” Uh, can you please be more specific? Do you know what you are trying to build, model, etc.? No, I just want to learn how to write software from scratch!
So, I put on my Professors cap and believe that [...]
There’s a strange trend going around the web that brings me back earlier in my career when we thought software engineering was going the way of widgets or modules. In a nutshell, you basically take a widget here or widget there and integrate them to build a large scale application.
We sorta do this today on [...]
Sometimes development projects just drag on and on… and sometimes resistance is futile when it comes to NIH. I swear that the Borg got me the last six months when I started switching over to Cake PHP and an MVC Architecture.
It’s not that I like or enjoy assimilation, but every time I analyze the [...]
Unlike me, Amit the Super Affiliate, probably should stick to PPC traffic cause he can’t pass a simple SEO Cartoon Quiz. Not that I’m a professed SEO expert, I’ve found that if you simply “follow the SEO recipe“, your pages will rank higher in the SERPS. After all, W3.org is the governing organization which [...]
I really didn’t want to go into work today but I keep getting a Check Condition (SCSI Status Code 02h). I should have hooked up the Fibre Channel Analyzer up last night, but with the “Great California Rain Storm” pounding down, I left the office to pick up my wife before the real [...]
Basic Stuff: The Model-View-Controller Architecture has three components used to partition and separate the processing from the display or GUI: The Model, View and Controller.
Basically, the inputs are mapped to the Controller and the outputs are mapped to the View. The Model maintains the persistent state of the Controller. Some MVC Architecture Diagrams [...]
Leveraging existing technology is always a difficult task. It’s more of a personal challenge to get over the mindset that you can do it better. Perhaps you can, but do you have the time and budget to accomplish the daunting task of building a component that someone already has built for you?
There’s [...]
Not Invented Here is a continuing series of articles to help you overcome the hurdles of reusing and leverage existing technology for rapid development. The decision to develop any product in-house takes considerable amount of effort and development time. Reusing components and integrating them with your product reduces the time to delivery and in [...]
“Not Invented Here” (NIH). This is one of the biggest hurdles developers have to overcome when reusing components, modules, functions or snippets in the production software. I’ve run across it my entire development career — developers simply do not like to use software that they don’t write and own — and of course, I’m [...]
I never met a software developer that didn’t drink coffee (or tea). Lots of coffee. This is due to the demanding hours we keep. Eighteen hour days is not unusual especially during crunch-time.
I love running out to Starbucks, Coffee Bean or now my favorite Bad Ass Coffee around 3 or 4 [...]