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July 2008

A Tale of Software Rewrites

What follows below is an excerpt from Michael Feathers’ book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. You can find it in Chapter 24, “We feel overwhelmed. It isn’t going to get any better.” In fact, I was sure this was a stand-alone essay, in the likes of those by Paul Graham, but it was nowhere to be found online. It is just too good to pass up, so I shamelessly reproduce it here.

7/25/2008 |

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Being the People's Voice in Usability Debates

What happens when you get a bunch of people to discuss construction of User Interface (UI) is best depicted by Steve Krug in Don’t Make Me Think:

7/20/2008 |

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The Book Is Here!

The book I’m referring to is Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5 (I know, long title) by Adam Calderon and Joel Rumerman. No, I’m not crazy enough to write a book. I was a technical reviewer on this project with Addison-Wesley. Doing a thorough technical review takes a lot of time (part of the reason I’ve been so quiet lately). Writing a programming book takes an insane amount of time and brings no money.

7/6/2008 |

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July 2008

A Tale of Software Rewrites

Being the People's Voice in Usability Debates

The Book Is Here!