software development
Every software project I've ever worked on has accrued technical debt
[http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html] over time:
> Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham
[http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?TechnicalDebt] to help us think about this problem.
In this metaphor, doing
software development
Nathan Bowers pointed me to this five year old Cool Tools entry on the book Art & Fear.
Although I am not at all ready to call software development "art" -- perhaps "craft" would be more appropriate, or "engineering" if you're feeling
.net
Coming from humble Visual Basic 3.0 beginnings, by way of AmigaBasic, AppleSoft Basic, and Coleco Adam SmartBasic, I didn’t get a lot of exposure to formal programming practice.
One of the primary benefits of .NET is that it brings VB programmers into the fold – we’re now real