Programmer’s Paradox

Can the amount of Nerf wars that occur in an office be an indication of the health of a company (or at least of employee moral)?
The more Nerf wars that employees have is an indication they are happier. Why? It is a sign that people are being outgoing and embracing each other.
As Nerf [...]

Agile processes have become the darling of the industry, and certainly there is good reason for this.  They do tend to facilitate communication and development practices that lead to better software.  However, paralleling the transition to agile is a more insidious transition: a push towards open office spaces.
The argument goes that open is good, because [...]

The man I consider the best technical blogger on the Internet laid down his pen today, giving up blogging.  Raganwald said goodbye.
I wish him all the best.  Now comes the hard part: finding other bloggers to replace him in my RSS reader.  I glanced through my reader today and realized that Raganwald was the only [...]

If you’re reading this post, I’d like to thank you for sticking around.  I’ve been gone from this blog for much longer than I anticipated and I semi-apologize for that.  While I didn’t intend to abandon writing, other events in my life were more important and as a result this blog got the boot while [...]

I just spent this past weekend at the No Fluff Just Stuff conference, the Raleigh edition.  It was a very enlightening experience.  While it is a Java focused conference, it is still a great event to learn a lot, even if you aren’t a Java heavy developer, like myself.  I think I speak for a [...]