Browse by Tags -

Browse by Tags

More on Quality

I started typing a comment to John Teague's post about Creating a Culture of Quality , but it got a little long so I decided to make it a post. If you would be so kind, please read John's post first (linked in the last sentence) and then proceed with this post. Here are some of my additional...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-07-2008
The Problem Preventer

Problem Statement I'm thinking about putting ' Problem Preventer ' on my resume. Many of the folks I'm talking with in interviews and phone screens don't seem to get this at all. I get a lot of questions about problems solved, etc. I have some good stories and the calls usually go...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 04-25-2008
Pablo's Topic of the Month - April: Design Patterns

Pablo's Topic of the Month - April: Design Patterns Over the next few days and weeks, the Los Techies crew will be writing a number of blog posts focused a particular subject in addition to their regular blogging. Pablo's Topic of the Month for the month of April is about ' Design Patterns...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 04-01-2008
PTOM: Single Responsibility Principle

The Single Responsibility Principle This post is about the first letter in Uncle Bob's SOLID acronym, Single Responsibility Principle , and a continuation of The Los Techies Pablo's Topic of the Month - March: SOLID Principles . Sean has already posted on this, but I'd like to "contribute"...

Posted to Jason Meridth (Weblog) by Jason Meridth on 03-29-2008
Time-to-Login-Screen, and the absolute basic requirements for good software

I went and hung out with some fellow developers on Saturday (at the Grist Mill in New Braunfels, TX , incidentally -- wonderful place!) and we talked about all sorts of things on the way down, there, and back up. One of the things that particularly stuck in my mind was a discussion how there are still...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 03-16-2008
PTOM: The Liskov Substitution Principle

The Liskov Substitution Principle In my first (of hopefully more than one) post for The Los Techies Pablo's Topic of the Month - March: SOLID Principles effort, I'm going to talk about The Liskov Substitution Principle, as made popular by Robert 'Uncle Bob' Martin in The C++ Report ....

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 03-11-2008
I find your lack of tests disturbing.

Found this here: {|one, step, back|} and I had to cry chuckle.

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 02-24-2008
Guiding Principles 101

As a answer-in-part to my own Call To Blog More , I'd like to make an entry. I'd like to talk about some of the guiding principles of design we should all be thinking about and re-enforcing in each other. These principles require discipline and it's VERY easy to not use them and still achieve...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 02-12-2008
Term of the Day: Principle Of Least Surprise - Epilogue

Okay, this is funny. Little did I know that while writing “Term of the Day: Principle Of Least Surprise” I was entering the midst of just such a problem. The entry was written over a 2-3 hour span during compile waits on various tasks. The last hour or so required debugging due to some really strange...

Posted to Bytes of Wisdom (Weblog) by jlockwood on 04-03-2007
Term of the Day: Principle Of Least Surprise

The principle of least surprise (AKA POLS) simply dictates that the interface to any given entity (method, for instance) should exhibit the bevahior that is least suprising to the user/programmer when there are conflicts or ambiguities between members of said interface. Example: Let's say that the following...

Posted to Bytes of Wisdom (Weblog) by jlockwood on 04-03-2007

Page 1 of 2 (11 items) 1 2 Next >