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Chiron Codex: helping software engineers become centaurs. APPropriate Behaviour
The book about all the things software writers do that aren't writing software.
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Episode 48: The Personal Software Process
This episode is about the Software Engineering Institute’s Personal Software Process (PSP), a particular disciplined way of improving a software engineer’s work. We talk about other the process in particular, and the idea of a continuous improvement process more generally. … Continue reading
Episode 47: comprehensive documentation
I talk about the historical context of the Agile manifesto, what “comprehensive documentation” meant then, and what documentation is still important now. I also remind you that you can support this podcast by becoming a patron. I chose not to … Continue reading
Episode 46: popularity
This episode is all about the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity: when to use it, what its limitations are, why certain things are or aren’t popular, and why the hell isn’t Excel on the list.
Episode 45: Information Security
This issue is all about the various reasons information security isn’t taken more seriously by developers. CERT C Secure Coding Standard Open Web Application Security Project Microsoft Bluehat DefCon Security BSides
Episode 44: We Would Know What They Thought When They Did It
We would now what they thought when they did it, a call for a history of ideas in computing. Laurent Bossavit, author of The Leprechauns of Software Engineering, can’t work out who introduced the phrase “legacy code” (or why). Technical … Continue reading
Episode 43: what we DO know about software engineering
This episode follows from episode 42: what I have yet to learn. APPropriate Behaviour and its incompleteness comes up again The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (and its incompleteness) come up again too; last mentioned in episode 41: professional software. … Continue reading
Episode 42: What I have yet to learn
This episode is about the things I don’t know about software engineering. 20 things [Justin Etheridge has] learned in 20 years as a software engineer by @justinetheridge The SICPers blog (might be a bit weird linking that here, but if … Continue reading
Episode 41: Professional Software
We talk about software engineering as a profession. ACM Code of Ethics Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBoK) BCS Code of Conduct
Episode 40: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Computer Programs
This episode is about truisms that aren’t, in the world of the computer. I’ve already written an article, falsehoods programmers believe about programming, on a similar topic, but in this episode I go into way more depth on the counter-examples … Continue reading
Episode 39: Monetising the Hobby
This episode is about what happens when you let people who are interested in programming (the process) define how you do programming (creating a program). Links: Code Kata Just for Fun: the Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (Linus Torvalds’ autobiography) … Continue reading
