Category Archives: Rant

Rants, comparison, opinions, and discussions dealing with Software and Software Design.

Retweet July 2010

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Software Development

If developers think [...]

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Retweet April 2010

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Software Development

Any software feature [...]

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Software Engineering in Pictures

In a typical day, software engineers, use diagrams, charts, and a ideograms to represent the software systems we work on. The biggest problems with software can also be described visually, such as the following image which tries to explain problems of software engineering.
When software engineering is that complicated, just imagine how the software application [...]

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PHP Creator is a Terrible Coder

Rasmus Lerdorf, the Danish creator of the PHP programming language, recently tweeted the following bit of hubris.

For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another – Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)

That sounds like something that DHH would say, who also happens to [...]

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Working Code is Just One Corner Case

A use case is just one corner case, and developers working with code very often test just for that one corner case. A corner case can be described as a program error or software bug that occurs outside of normal use, or caused by parameter values and environments outside the intended acceptable range. [...]

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Retweet March 2010

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Software Development

Security pet peeves: [...]

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