One of the most misunderstood areas by software organizations is how to properly manage developers. As a result, the common wisdom in many companies is that developers need to be managed for performance. And since performance in creative endeavors is really difficult to quantify, this is frequently measured using a meaningless metric, such as number…
Sometimes, worse is better. As strange as it may look, having something that is not perfect may be better than spending the time to make it perfect. This happens in many areas, and its the main reason perfectionists never get any work done. If the expectation is for perfection, then it is really hard to…
The sam editor is a text editor written by some of the same people that created UNIX, including Ken Thompson and Bob Pike. Many of them worked previously on the AT&T Labs (the lab has mostly been disbanded, but many of these guys still work for other companies). The sam editor provides many of the…