A great way of creatively solving a problem is through boredom. If you are having a hard time coming up with a solution, simply stop what you're doing and let your mind wander.

In the last decade I've been fortunate, or unfortunate depending on your view, in going through multiple company transitions from Waterfall to Agile practices for organizing software development work.  Most...no, all the transitions didn't go very well. What they all had in common was that they hired a "certified" scrum master to lay down the … Continue reading Generalizing Specialists and Transactive Memory

All companies want to know if their investment will bring them value.  In order to understand how much value they are getting, the company will implement some sort of measurement.  This is common sense: I invest, show me what I'm getting with my investment.  However, a measurement can have an adverse side affect in the … Continue reading When To Stop Looking at Code Coverage – Goodhart’s Law

All these software principles and practices can be hard to keep up with when developing applications. They can be even harder to implement. One thing that makes it difficult is figuring out when not to follow them. Like a good database architect would say: it takes experience knowing when to denormalize data. One problem that … Continue reading Software Principles and Misintegrated Thinking

Full disclosure: I love working in the Cloud!  I've been at a few companies that have their infrastructure in the cloud, including my current position.  The cloud makes it incredibly easy to create servers and environments, and that really helps when one is in a pinch. Speaking of a pinch: recently I got myself into … Continue reading To The Cloud! Optionality For Quick Fixes

A strategy to polymorph a Javascript class and call super methods.

YAGNI fits well with the art of being Proactively Lazy but only if a developer follows that the SOLID and Object Oriented principles trump YAGNI