Our industry has been thinking for years about ways to improve the way in which we deliver software projects. I've been a professional software developer for more than 15 years. At the beginning of my career, we were still deploying websites, or applications, by using FTP or using a copy command. Fifteen years later I can deploy a new version of a web application by just committing a new feature to the codebase. Needless to say, we came a long way in those fifteen years. Over the years I have g…
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Last week Joel Spolsky did an interview on Geekwire Summit. You can watch the interview here [https://youtu.be/R1V8OUOb-Hw]. For those who don't know Joel, he is the founder of Fog Creek Software and launched Stack Overflow. He is also the author of the blog Joel on Software, a blog focused on software development. In the interview he talks about how you can attract and keep developers. Programming is a create process which must be done with total focus. When a programmer is implementing a feat…