Pragmatic Designer

TODO: There are two kinds of iteration, but they are commonly conflated.

There is a kind of design distortion that happens when a team chooses to build iteratively instead of looking at all of the requirements at once.

We currently find ourselves in a surprising situation: we understand software architecture fairly well, but we find it difficult to put it into practice.

Presents effective strategies for software development and management processes.

Writing about the buildup of technical debt, Ward Cunningham said, Although immature code may work fine and be completely acceptable to the customer, excess…

Discusses the term "technical debt". Its so prevalent that we shorten it to tech debt or even just TD.

I've been reflecting on how we used to develop software in the 1990s compared to what I see today.

In the past decade, we have seen a significant shift in attitudes toward the architects role.

Design by contract DBC is a technique that improves the quality of your team's code.

Source code reveals abstractions from two places: the problem and the solution.

Not long ago, when your company became successful, you bought a bigger computer to run your software.

I'm always delighted to discover a connection between two ideas that I'm already fond of on their own, so I'd like to share a connection I found recently.

Imagine that you have some code written, but it has problems.

In the early days of software engineering, Edsger Dijkstra warned us not to let the size and complexity of our programs cause us to lose intellectual…