Thoughts on Accelerate (book review)

Thoughts on Accelerate (book review)

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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Quiet please, developers working

Quiet please, developers working

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…

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