sw-eng

• 17 Jan 2024

  Better Software Manuals by Dana Sohr

  On writing documentation and how this has become a lost art, Paolo Amororso’s toot brough to my attention a wonder...
• 16 Aug 2023

  The influence of programming paradigms on development techniques

  I was reading an old paper recently A Requirements-Driven Software Development Methodology by Castro, Kolp and Mylopoulo...
• 13 Jun 2023

  Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s

  I recently saw this toot in Mastodon and I had a good laugh with it. It’s trite, but many older workers in the sof...
• 18 May 2023

  Keep your code simple, Wirth style

  On keeping your code simple (because you know you only write it once, but you maintain it for the rest of your life), th...