A few weeks ago, I noticed that Google finally gave me an authority hub listing for the keyword search “codesqueeze”…but then I noticed something a little out of place… …that’s right people… …we all knew this day was going to come… …Phil Haack has finally started his world domination plan by stealing my thunder and using Codesqueeze Google [...]

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Every developer has some amount of code that they feel is reusable to them, but doesn’t clear that bar to be reusable for everyone. This is what I call Pocket Code - reusable code that does not belong in reusable libraries that is shared amongst projects and team members, but code that you keep handy somewhere [...]

After being on Twitter for many moons, I am starting to finally understand the true potential it can hold. It is true, Twitter is huge time sucking blackhole void of time; however, Twitter does have its fantastic community aspects. For example, the other day I had a quick development question. I could have went [...]

This is a continuation of the post - Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous As the saying goes, the first step in fighting addiction is admitting you have a problem. Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to rationalize away our problems. Problems which then create ticking time bombs in fragile card houses. One [...]

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Keeping your teams small may seem obvious, but it really is necessary to keep a group of people motivated towards solving a common goal. Mike over at Leading Answers has more in-depth break down of the communication overload that can occur, but the 2 Pizza concept that 37 Signals and FastCompany talk about is [...]

For some time now, I have thought that high-level project roadmaps (Gantt charts in particular) are one of the most worthless documents that a software project team can produce. I shouldn’t be so hard on them, but there are an uncountable number of reasons why I despise these charts. Quantifies Unknowns As the old saying goes: You [...]

Regardless of language and skill set, all developers have to constantly revisit their code and refactor. Although you can look at it optimistically and view it as an opportunity for continuous improvement, many of us also take the pessimistic view that it is a chore. Unfortunately, either way you look at it refactoring is a [...]

Feeling kind of lazy lately due to a lack of sleep the last few days, so I am going to coast today with a batch of links. I dug down really deep into my grab bag, so there are some oldies but goodies here. I am currently working on a post for Friday [...]