Category Archives: General

Theory of Constraints interview

Recently, after seeing David Anderson channel9 video, I came across to the concept of Theory of Constraints and how it applies to software projects. I’ve found Anderson’s work on agile project management very interesting and I will probably read his book in the near future.
While searching for “Theory of Constraints” I found this recent [...]

Why write software for the Mac

Wil Shipley, the founder of Delicious Monster Software, has a podcast of his talk at WWDC 2005 about writing software for the Mac.
In this podcast Shipley describes his experience with founding Delicious Monster and developing software exclusively for the Mac for the last years. He also explains how writing software for the Mac is different [...]

Interesting LtU links

I found the below links at LtU:

Is it Select/From or From/Select?
Don Box says “Scheme Is Love”
XLinq: XML Programming Refactored (The Return Of The Monoids)
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig
Take a lifetime to be a good (and happy) programmer by Scott Johnson

Article about maintenance programming

The developer.* magazine has published a great article about maintenance programming. The title of the article is “Syndromes of Forgotten Programmers” and it is written by Kevin Cauble.
I believe that every programmer who has worked with legacy code will enjoy reading it.