Ninja Software Development

Developing software in the Real World is different from all the theory. I'll attempt to explain my insights into this process, based on 25+ years in the industry in a number of different companies.

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Monday, March 20, 2023

YANJ (Yet Another New Job)

So, Startup, Inc. had what I can only guess in an investor clench and they laid off 10 people, including me. Meh. I got a new job in less ...

Saturday, March 20, 2021

New Job

So I up and changed jobs - no more working for Giant Souless Corporation; in stead, I'm working for Souless Startup Company. It will be...

Friday, August 28, 2020

Agile will fail

Because none of the business-side people bother to learn, and all the commercial tools allow them to avoid learning. User stories that are w...

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Non-leaders

So I've been having a bad day. Wake up to a bunch of work bureaucracy bullshit - web forms that do not have working links, Satanically ...

Friday, February 21, 2020

Bad API behavior

Ok, so we were running test code yesterday evening to get some data for a presentation, and there was a typo in a text string that a downstr...

Thursday, January 09, 2020

The Perfect Office

Screw open plan offices. They suck in all ways. The ideal office plan has individual real offices for each developer -walls all the way ...

Friday, October 04, 2019

Logging advice

Ok, an actual post about doing things right, instead of me venting my spleen. So, let's talk about logging messages. When writing lo...

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Dixie Software Ninja: 20+ year veteran of the software industry, working in companies ranging from a 9-person startup to a Fortune 500 company

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