One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars this week, to the great relief – and joy – of many. Now, of course, the fun part begins: letting this Mini Cooper-sized nuclear-powered mobile ...

Last weekend, some anonymous “specialist” told the New York Times that “5 million lines of software code may need to be rewritten” in order to fix the mess that is healthcare.gov. (The good news, ...

Google share stats on the volume of code it manages and, not surprisingly, it’s a whole heck of a lot Software code, it seems, is all around us today. It’s in obvious places like your computer, tablet ...