Before a few minutes ago i had never seen a release of a system i worked on have to be rolled back. Now i have.
If you have to do uml diagramming – and i generally advise against it – umlet (http://umlet.com) is a nice tool.
There are somethings we do under the pretense of being useful that are actually harmful. Unscheduled stories and bug reports in your ticket tracking system are an example. Creating a ticket is easy when you are in the moment. However, once produced these artifacts have to be read and understood multiple times in the future. [...]
From the coffeescript homepage: Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. That sums up my feelings about javascript almost exactly.
My name is Peter Williams. I am a father and software developer. (I do a few other things, of course, but family and software are what I am most passionate about.) This blog is primarily a place where I can rant without scaring too many people, but occasionally I record things of interest to my family here.
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