Technical Health over Technical Debt

Ward Cunningham is credited with the first use of the team Complexity as Debt or Technical Debt (YouTube video) as a metaphor poor software implementation. For a software application or system …

At the start of my career I worked with fairly dumb terminals and mainframes. Programs were natively compiled but resources were limited and shared with the other users of the system. Shared computing …

Orchestration and Choreography are often discussed as design options for event driven systems. Some use the term interchangeably while others feel that the two are very distinct. I am in the later …

Risk is typically expressed as a function of likelihood and severity or impact. Probability is an important factor but this article is about understanding the potential impact of change on a …

The path to a million (loc)

Over the last month or so I have been writing some data collection and simple analysis routines for the things we (developers) use every day. The ultimate goal is to have a system that can collect, …

Builder anti-patterns

Commit History Metrics

For the last few years I have been very interested in what we can learn about our software development processes by looking at the data generated by the tools that we use to manage and deploy our …

Defending the Domain Model

Creating useful software models that represent the buisness they serve is hard. Creating a single model for a business at a point in time might be possible but as the business changes models need to …

Testing Logging

As a developer I recognise the importance of generating logs for the systems that I help design and develop. At the outset often everyone recognizes the importance of logging but somehow it’s very …

Templated styles

While developing web applications I have often needed to change the style of one or more elements based on the state of the data model used by the application. I have an inherent aversion to …