spiros.blog() » Uncategorized http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog Spiros Tzavellas’s blog, mostly on software development and Java. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:25:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Theory of Constraints interview http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog/2006/03/12/theory-of-constraints-interview/ http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog/2006/03/12/theory-of-constraints-interview/#comments Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:03:27 +0000 spiros http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog/?p=53 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 interview of Dr. Eli Goldratt. Dr. Eli Goldratt is the founder of Theory of Constraints and his interview is a very interesting read.

A small quote from the start of the interview:

Gilmore: What are the key concepts behind the Theory of Constraints?

Goldratt: There are two pillars to the Theory of Constraints. One is the starting assumption of all the hard sciences, which is that in all real-life systems there is inherent simplicity. If you can just find that inherent simplicity, you can manage, control and improve the system.

The other pillar is that people are not stupid.

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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 than writing software for Windows and gives general advices for startups.

My favorite quote from the podcast/talk: “Less code is better code. No code is best code.”

BTW I am a Windows/Linux user and I ‘ve never used a Mac, but I found the podcast very interesting.

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  • Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig
  • Take a lifetime to be a good (and happy) programmer by Scott Johnson
    • ]]>     http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog/2005/09/19/teach-yourself-programming-in-ten-years/feed/ 0     Article about maintenance programming http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog/2005/05/25/article-about-maintenance-programming/ http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog/2005/05/25/article-about-maintenance-programming/#comments Wed, 25 May 2005 05:00:21 +0000 spiros http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog/?p=13 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.

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