Or AWS, if your time’s important. Amazon, yes the online book and shopping company, actually run one of the largest (if not the largest?) hosting platforms in the world, supporting businesses in over 190 countries since 2006. AWS offers a few key advantages over much of their competition: Price Scale …

Something I find continually interesting is how people view upfront vs ongoing costs in the world of app development. …

The effects of interruptions on my old programming team were something that I was acutely aware of, and the knock-on task-switching effects that has on technical disciplines. Although I’ll speak in general, it’s worth noting that this mostly applies to the technical/programming space and may be less applicable to other…

Having spent over a decade in custom software development, I’ve seen a range of approaches when a business embarks on a new software journey, but there is one conspicuous omission: MVP. People tell me that’s an acronym used in sports too, but that’s not what I mean. In the world…

Full disclaimer: this post will borrow heavily from Jeff Atwood and Martin Fowler who have both written on this topic in the past, mostly as we share a perspective and writing style. I also have a lot of respect for Jeff and his blog is a regular read of mine. …

I was in the process of writing (what I thought was) a great article on the topic of this image But today’s CommitStrip really won