Estimating how long it will take to develop software is difficult. Fortunately, as an industry we’ve moved away from big-planning-up-front, exhaustive Gantt charts and toward a more agile approach. Unfortunately, we’ve stuck with single point estimates which have some significant disadvantages when compared to range estimates.
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Are You a Good Programmer?
August 19th, 2011
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If someone asks you to recommend a good programmer, who comes to mind? Do you consider yourself a good programmer? What criteria do you use to judge?
Please Steal My Startup Idea
June 19th, 2011
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Every restaurant menu item in the world is searchable by its ingredients.
Streamlining Your Workflow with AppleScript
December 13th, 2009
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When developing web applications, I frequently switch between iTerm, TextMate, my browser, and my mail client. So I used AppleScript to streamline my task-switching. I’ll show you how I did this in case you’re inspired to streamline your workflow, too.
Getting Started with Amazon S3 and S3Fox
November 9th, 2009
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Amazon S3 is a web service that lets you store data in the cloud for very cheap (my October bill was $0.05). This makes it a great place to backup files.
puts “Hello, World!”
November 9th, 2009
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I’ve been wanting to set up a blog for about a year now and have finally found the time. This blog is about web development with a focus on Ruby on Rails. I hope you find it useful!
