I’ve been having a conversation with some folks on Twitter about their evidence that mob programming makes Brooks’ Law irrelevant. Someone offered evidence based upon his own experience that mob programming breaks this rule.  I hope I’m not mischaracterizing his argument. That is,  I don’t think he’s saying that mob programming negates Brooks’ Law–I think […]

So I’ve been trying to keep my development skills somewhat sharp by working on coding up certain data structures in C#.  Course I’d rather do this with F# or even some more interesting FP language (Elm anyone?) but I do have a need to be able to show this code to student developers and the […]

While I’ve done a lot of things that I now regret, I can say that I’ve been somewhat blessed to have learned from some of my mistakes.  So please believe that this advice comes from sad experience and that I’m just trying to help some folks avoid the career limiting moves that I have made […]

I can't tell you what makes a senior developer but I can tell you what separates a lot of juniors from the seniors.

. . . it's interesting to see the number of efforts to build new languages on old vm's . . .