The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more “Kinda a big announcement”
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HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more “HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world”
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more “So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?”
Welcome, Prashanth!
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more “Welcome, Prashanth!”
Reading lists
Over the last 16 years I’ve written 1114 articles on this site about software development, management, business, and the Internet. To make it easy to find the best ones, here are some reading lists, sorted by topic.
Top 10
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
- Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- Fire And Motion
- The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- How Microsoft Lost the API War
- The Perils of JavaSchools
- The Development Abstraction Layer