As a software engineer, I was trained to think about the worst case. What is the worst possible performance for the algorithm used as specified in O(n), “big Oh“, notation? If you had formal education in computer science, you have been asked this question. Given that we are supposed to think about the worst case,… Read More How Can Software Development Avoid The Need For A Hero?
I am not one to tell people to make new year’s resolutions because they tend to be vague and generic in nature. However, it is a great time to plan your goals for the year. The question is how do you know if you are successful? First, lower your expectations and change your definition of… Read More Reach Your Goals In 2010
There have been a lot of posts recently where people are trying to help others “be awesome” or “kick ass”. There are whole industries supporting this idea as well. Many of the personal productivity systems try to help you be awesome every day. The problem is that it does not work. Awesomeness is not something… Read More You Need a Foundation Before You Can Be Awesome
While the TechCrunch50 conference was occurring, I was watching to see what development oriented tools would appear. At most of these type of conferences, someone always tries to launch some new, exciting and easy way to build applications. This TC50, there was one company that looked interesting, FluidHTML. FluidHTML does have some interesting technology, and… Read More Application Development May Never Be Easy
Continuing with my introduction to software development posts, I have listed some of my favorite computer science books. Many of these are fairly theory based, or were really important when they were released. Many software developers I know have huge libraries, but I wanted to focus on some that I refuse to give away. The… Read More My Favorite Programming And Computer Science Books
I wrote a post over a week ago that has seen more traffic than this blog gets over the course of months. I have Digg to thank for that traffic. That post was regarding what programming language I recommend to people new to software development. Once Digg gets a hold of a story, the comments… Read More Explaining My List of Programming Languages
As a software engineer, this question comes up fairly often “Should you specialize in a technology”. Right now the question is there because the large number of Java developers are wondering whether they should learn Ruby or Groovy. For those asking the Ruby or Groovy question, yes learn one of them. Learning is always important,… Read More Should You Specialize in a Technology?
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