Our field is a young one. Young in terms of the average age of engineers in the field doing work. This has the unfortunate side effect of the same failures to repeat with each generation of developers. I've been in the field to see a few generations go by and the same mistakes re-appear. Every few years there is talk (hype really) of how a new language or tool is going to revolutionize software development. The IDE's Languages, development methodologies, etc. are the "hot new thing" in the field. But I've never found that true. I can still code and produce the same code with the same quality as I did 20 years ago. The basics are the same, edit, build, run, test. Yup the tools and computers are much faster today so the cycle time is quicker but it's not 10-100x faster. More like 2-3 times faster than decades ago. So what makes one type of development or a project much better than another? From my perspective it's the design. Design trumps la
Just some random (isn't it all) thoughts and doings in my life.