Engineering Priorities

A short post on the priorities of hobby projects, 1st draft projects, final production grade applications. As per the post tag the below is only 1/4 serious and 3/4 for fun. Hobby / 1st drafts: Novelty (Can I use this new shiny thing?) Performance (Can I make this new shiny thing go faster too??) Reliability (Oh yeah–it fails sometimes, but I just restart it.) Correctness (Wait you mean it was supposed to solve problem X and not problem Y?...

April 21, 2013 · Michael Hughes

When is software done and implications therein

In this post we’ll discuss what it means for a piece of software to be done (if ever) and some of the implications of that. ...

April 19, 2013 · Michael Hughes