The Inquisitive Coder – Davy Brion's Blog

I apologize for just another link dumping of my own posts yet again, but i have some posts that are personal favorites of mine but that didn’t quite get the attention that i thought they deserved. Instead of thinking that they suck (which they very well might) i tend to tell myself that these unfortunate posts were merely overlooked

1. The Life And Times Of A Bug

   This is definitely my nr 1 favorite post. I guess it was a bit too far out there for most people but you have to admit at least one thing: you’ve never read anything like that before :p

2. Ethics In Software Development: Pragmatism Over Dogmatism

   Dogmatism of any kind is wrong. Pragmatism isn’t always ideal either, but a healthy balance between them is a necessity in this business.

3. Buzzword Driven Development Isn’t Gonna Help You

   I hate it when people go overboard with buzzwords, and it shows in this post.

4. Make It Work, Make It Clean?

   I really loved this post… it’s about an approach that one of my friends used (and still uses from time to time). I certainly don’t recommend this approach to anyone because i can only imagine a handful of people pulling this off successfully, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

5. Test Doubles: When To (Not) Use Them

   I actually think this is pretty good advice about when to use test doubles, and when not to. Unfortunately, hardly anyone read it

6. Which Path To Follow?

   Which path should one follow if one is merely looking to improve continuously?

7. Thoughts on code reviews

   Discusses a different approach i once took for a code review.

8. Is SQL going the way of Disco?

   People are writing less and less SQL… my question was: why should they?

9. Are women better developers than men?

   If the majority of male developers sucks, is it a stretch to think that maybe women on average would be better at it than we are?

10. Programming Languages Don’t Matter

    They really, really don’t.

Hopefully some of you will like a few of these posts now