Dealing with botched software projects
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Borland Software this week stood atop its soapbox preaching the evils of software projects gone awry, with projects beset by issues such as last-minute changes and differing perspectives on the potential success of development efforts.
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Save a bundle by learning from other people's mistakes.
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(Source: BMC Software) Are time constraints pressuring your development, QA, and support resources to cut corners on software quality? If so, your company's not alone. According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, "...problem resolution is a major time-sink for developers and a drain on the efficiency of application development and support."
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PHPKitchen has an interesting post covering one of the banes of most web developers existance - the "back button problem".
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On his blog, Nick Halstead shares a few tips he's worked up to help developers that might be having a hard time with coding issues - a few steps towards solving programming problems.   Early on in most people's programming careers problem solving is a large part of your day to day job. As you become more experienced you find that many programming patterns that you have used before can be reapplied. You then start working on larger and larger projects and the problems tend to be more about solving architectural problems rather than logic related ones.   Included in his list are things like "Talking it through", "Brainstorming", "Breaking it down" and "Research". This last one can be one of the most important and can save tons of time in the long run. With tools like Google and other sites, there's no reason to check before you start a project to see if there's someone out there that might have already done it (and it might be more well developed).
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Feature Consolidation runs and runs
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How often have you thrown up your hands in disgust at the poor quality of documentation for an open source project?  Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if someone put together a documentation coverage tool that worked like test coverage too ls?  Well, you&#8217;re in luck&#8212;dcov is here (at least for Ruby code).read more
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Blog: Many of the patches address flaws within QuickTime for Java.
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Windows, Linux and Java each fail some basic integrity rules.
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Warning to employers: this might not be the best time to assign a big, complicated project.
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Bad contractors can make your life miserable -- avoid them.
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From product keys to click behavior, application developers need to stop annoying their users.
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A peek at companies that overpromised and underdelivered.
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As organizations consolidate their systems and prepare for new versions of key software such as Windows Server 2008, major server-related projects are getting put on the front burner.
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An IntelliSense Cure for Method Madness? Hands on We were six months into the project before we even realised we had a problem. Until that point, we had assumed IntelliSense was a trivial matter that could doubtless be wrapped up in an afternoonâs coding. After all, how hard can it be to program some lists of names that drop down when someone types a dot?â¦
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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Over on Marco Tabini's Weblog today, there's a new posting that might hit close to home with quite a fe developers out there - a discussion on code documentation.