Developing a Bench

Building a solid bench involves years of preparation with no immediate reward. Hiring a team from scratch is a beautiful dream. I got to do it once at a startup before I had much experience as a manager. In many ways I’d love to re-live that experience, but I haven’t worked at a startup in [...]

January 23rd, 2009 | Category: management, software development | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Rough Mockups with Balsamiq

Not to long ago one of my developers came across a little mockup tool called Balsamiq and then I saw a post from Clark Ching who checked it out as well. I love the sketchy look and feel and rendering a quick mockup form was good fun. We’ll probably try it out on a [...]

January 12th, 2009 | Category: software development | Comments are closed

Bridging Development Realities

Denis over at One Brike At a Time recently expressed frustration at having to use low trust practices:

It used to be that I did not care much for defensive programming outside of a system’s boundaries. It used to be that I did not really care or believed in strict source control (as [...]

January 2nd, 2009 | Category: automated builds, code reviews, software development, test driven development | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)