SaaR or Software as a Revolution
Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com states that he has the intention to ‘change the Software industry’, and many would agree he has made an interesting start in the Customer Relationship...
View ArticleEffortlessly Complex
I have to admit, at first glance I was pleasantly surprised. Somebody pointed me to a recent article of two professors at the New York university in which they argue that Java is an unsuitable language...
View ArticleTesting Times from the Credit Crunch
I had a task flag to take a look at the proceedings from the annual International Conference for Software Process Improvement, ICSPI 2008, but on visiting their site I was pretty amazed to find this...
View ArticleThe Best Code is No Code – 7 ways to avoid errors by programming less
Just recently the SANS institute and MITRE published a Top 25 list of most dangerous programming errors that lead to cyber crime and other problems with websites. Experts from more than 30...
View ArticleI’m hip, I’m cool, I’m agile (*)
Bombarded by a decade of self-proclaimed guru’s, evangelists and other romantic revolutionaries (including myself, just to set things straight) I think we got the message by now: agile development is...
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Writing better software faster
I am most happy to introduce you to my colleague Sander Hoogendoorn. He wrote this guest blog-item – and an accompanying white paper – about one of the biggest challenges in our profession: how to...
View ArticleBlack Turkey
Want to have something nice to read on the iPad this summer? Download Nassim Taleb’s very instructive The Black Swan. Taleb describes the phenomenon of the black swan as a metaphor for...
View ArticleDreamed a Dream
The other night, I had a terrible nightmare. The bell rang. Two international software gurus stood at the doorstep (no wait, it gets even scarier than that). They asked me if I wanted to be a jury...
View ArticleSchizophrenic Tester
Ah yes, testers and me. We go back a long, long time. It’s much like love, really. We had our high a few years ago, when I wrote an article series for an IT magazine. In this series I used practical...
View ArticleNot your average Agile post
It’s interesting to see how Agile principles currently enjoy a state of obvious Renaissance. Or should we say Epiphany? To our mild surprise, there is a whole new generation of both clients and IT...
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