We’ve all seen it: An architect explaining something with a sketch containing bubbles and arrows on a whiteboard. Sometimes the architecture is perfectly realized in the project, sometimes not. Looking at the sketches there are few differences. Why are only some possible to realize? Let’s look at a typical system sketch drawn by an architect.… Continue reading Bubbles and Arrows Architects
Category: Software Development
What’s your Plan for when you’re Hacked?
What’s your plan on how to handle a security breach? How will you react when you’re hacked? Yes, that’s a “when” and not an “if”. Eventually it will happen. You’d better be prepared. If you ask a number of organizations on the risk of their computer security being compromised, I doubt that you’ll find a… Continue reading What’s your Plan for when you’re Hacked?
Professional Developers Estimate Times
Being a great coder is only part of the skills required to be a professional developer. A professional developer is never isolated with the code. All work is done within the context of a project. A professional developer delivers not only high quality code, but also high quality time estimates. Back in June I wrote… Continue reading Professional Developers Estimate Times
You’re a Top Developer!
I know that you are a top rated developer. In fact I know that everyone reading this is rankning among the top 10% of all developers. How I know? Because 90% of all developers never read a programming blog, never make any side projects to learn something new, never spend any time or effort outside… Continue reading You’re a Top Developer!
Programming is more Qualified than Ever
Business software has automated many routine tasks. Is there anyone still doing accounting manually? The automation is also applied to software development itself, removing routine tasks and leaving the hard tasks to solve manually. 15 years ago I was thinking of what a future career as a programmer would look like. I didn’t know much… Continue reading Programming is more Qualified than Ever