Category: Never Trust the Software Guys

I will start by saying, I have been known to say a few unkind words about some of the code […]

Let start with the famous quote: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. […]

At least that is what I am left thinking after reading article after article about how Rust is going to […]

To paraphrase the line “If you build it, he will come” from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, “if you write [documentation], […]

Shameless paraphrased from the Smokey Bear Wildfire Prevention campaign slogan: “Only You Can Prevent Wildfires”.  Only developers can prevent Header […]

Is developing software a science? Is it a skilled trade with master craftsmen and apprentices? Or is it art form? […]

My first response is a yet more questions. Is the question why is writing software hard about an individual software […]

This posting is the first in a series of postings (okay rants) on what goes wrong with software development, my […]