Why So Unproductive?
The bricklayer metaphor is used as a contrast to talk about the big, orders-of-magnitude differences between good programmers and average…
How to Design ID Numbers
When you first poke your head out of the warm comfort of your DBM’s Identity type, weary of its sameness…
Security Tips
Voodoo security Further reading: Snake Oil Cryptography by Bruce Schneier.
How to Design Big Systems
Having multiple perspectives is everything. The more ways you can see it, the more likely you’ll know what to build.…
Evil Programming Techniques
1) Using field initialization to do shitloads of work This class’s initialization will hog the thread the first time the…
How to Staff an It Department
IT departments are a form of self-defense for the modern company: they shouldn’t be necessary in a perfect world, but…
The Superior Use of OOP
Object Oriented Programming is a language paradigm open to several different philosophies of use, and some of these philosophies will…
Program Architecture Tips
Observations About Program Architectures
