Items tagged with howtodevelopsoftware

Eating our dogfood in the sausage factory

March 26, 2008 - 238 words , 1 comment
Recursive development for the new Drupal powered community platform.
Also tagged as: community development drupal metaphor recursion

Common causes of failure

October 30, 2007 - 47 words
How to fail at software development
Also tagged as: inc

Estimating ship dates

October 27, 2007 - 152 words
An automated way of comparing developer estimates to their past work.
Also tagged as: estimating joelspolsky productmanagement projectmanagement

Who decides when it's right?

August 17, 2006 - 109 words , 2 comments
It doesn’t matter if the solution is technically right, if it doesn’t match the end user’s needs, you’ve failed.
Also tagged as: requirements testing useraccpetance usercentered

Business in the front, REST in the back

March 23, 2006 - 382 words
Nifty corners is a JavaScript and CSS method for building rounded corners, no images...
Also tagged as: feedapi folksonomy frameworks productivity rest simplelinks tagging web20 webservices yahoo

Keeping track of distributed teams

March 6, 2006 - 23 words
Using IM status to track work
Also tagged as: im projectmanagement

The danger of doing too much

December 15, 2005 - 363 words , 2 comments
Developers don’t think in terms of simplicity.
Also tagged as: deanebarker simplicity