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  • How did I get started in software development?

    Jason Meridth tagged me with this meme, so I'll play along if anyone cares. How old were you when you started programming? I remember being 6 or 7 years old helping my brother open the box for our new Commodore Vic-20 (yeah, that's right baby, RESPECT). My Dad got us a book or two with BASIC...
    Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-27-2008

  • How did I get started in software development?

    Thanks for tagging me Joey. How old were you when you started programming? I was 11 years old (6th grade) when I started using QBasic to make easy games. I actually knew about the easter egg that showed the developer names. What was your first language? Like Joey I used to write basic apps with QBasic...
    Posted to Jason Meridth (Weblog) by Jason Meridth on 06-27-2008

  • Engaging Microsoft

    Many Microsoft employees were at the ALT.NET conf in Seattle -- including many of the ones that have been criticized publicly by the greater ALT.NET community. Not only was Microsoft there, but they were a sponsor and a few employees were even on the organizers list. Many of them only hear our negativity...
    Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 04-21-2008

  • Ancient wisdom is inescapable, especially with project management

    Introduction Today was my last day with my current former employer, as you may have heard from my (also now-former) coworker. We quit on principle after having several irreconcilable differences of opinions with our management over how to manage and execute a software project. As you might imagine, after...
    Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 04-02-2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ping-pong Pairing, it's not just for breakfast anymore

    Yesterday was my first day working at my new employer, Bayern Software , with (name drop alert!) Jeremy Miller . We started right off with an easy story doing ping-pong pairing. I really dig this method of doing development (not to mention pairing, not to mention TDD). We started off with a quick whiteboard...
    Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 03-03-2008

  • The first 2 hours of TDD are the most painful

    Quick Background I admit, I've had a lot of failures with TDD. Mostly they were solo projects and I didn't have the discipline and self control enough to stick with it. I ALWAYS regretted not sticking with it. However poorly I was doing it, it always gave SOME value and saved me from several...
    Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 02-12-2008

  • 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes

    (Found via DotNetKicks -- please kick it there , don't kick this post) Link: http://www.devtopics.com/101-great-computer-programming-quotes/ Some of my faves: “There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.” (Edward Tufte) “Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create...
    Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 01-12-2008
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