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I like variety.  In pursuit of this preference, I spend some time management consulting with enterprise clients and some time volunteering for ''office hours'' at a startup incubator.  Generally, this amounts to serving as ''rent-a-CTO'' for startup founders in half hour blocks.  This provides me with the spice of life, I ...

I have long since cast my lot with the software industry.  But, if I were going to make a commercial to convince others to follow suit, I can imagine what it would look like.  I'd probably feature cool-looking, clear whiteboards, engaged people, and frenetic design of the future.  And a robot or two.  Come help us ...

More years ago than I'd care to admit, I took a software engineering course as part of my graduate CS program.  At the time, I worked a full-time job during the day and did remote classes in the evening.  As a result, I disproportionately valued classes with applicability to my job.  And this class offered plenty ...

In professional contexts, I think that the word ''standard'' has two distinct flavors.  So when we talk about a ''team standard'' or a ''coding standard,'' the waters muddy a bit.  In this post, I'm going to make the case for a team standard.  But before I do, I think it important to discuss these flavors that I mention.  ...

If you write software, the term ''feedback loop'' might have made its way into your vocabulary.  It charts a slightly indirect route from its conception and into the developer lexicon, though, so let's start with the term's origin.  A feedback loop in general systems uses its output as one of its inputs. Kind of vague, ...