Interview with Grady Booch

An author telling the story of various and his methodologies. Conclusion: they are not worth using.

Do not estimate software development projects

This paper (What We Do and Don't Know about Software Development Effort Estimation) makes it clear: there is no reliable estimate methodology. Expert advice, experience are the best evaluators.

Slowly the idea of software as a craft, as an art, is growing. Not a production activity.

Computer Science Majors, Your Degree May Not Be As Valuable As You Think

Well, what this article show is that you can have programmers who will work as bricklayers. That's ok and enough to produce the bad spaghetti monolithic code of most commercial software. What about real developers. They should have, yes, a computer science degree. To be able to abstract concepts of the software they design. The keywork here is design, not build.

How developers work today

August 2014: 15 technologies changing how developers work

You ain't gonna need it

Finally someone said it clearly: we have to Get Back to Coding.

Note: "Don't be pressured by the perceived popularity of Git to adopt Git. (Obviously, if you want to explore Git for your own edification, I'm not recommending against that. But understand that that choice will add complexity to your other work.)"

Just let me code

Discouraged Developer  

If you really need it, here is How to get started with GitHub

Devops? Docker?

Devops: new methodology? Hype or finally some thing which integrates development and operation? Looks like developers should think operation. Much like engineers design the product and the plant to fabricate the product.

And Docker? Looks like containers are better than virtual machines for development:

http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/docker-the-first-true-devops-tool-247170?source=IFWNLE_nlt_stradev_2014-07-29

http://www.zdnet.com/what-is-docker-and-why-is-it-so-darn-popular-7000032269/

http://opensource.com/business/14/7/docker-through-hype?sc_cid=70160000000dgMrAAI&elq=a1b855f9c688441790c95f6bb6c7251f&elqCampaignId=31321

http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/how-get-started-docker-245278?source=IFWNLE_nlt_virtualization_2014-08-07

User evaluation of an IDE, framework, .Net

Why I Left the .NET Framework: "because it kept reasserting itself and wanting to be more than it was: an implementation detail"