Diversity in Software Engineering With such a large percentage of our population in the USA being women (50.8%), African American (13.2%), and Latino Americans (17%. Actually this includes Hispanic Americans as well), why are such a small percentage of us Software Engineers from minority backgrounds?! I would have to imagine other minorities are in the […]

Software Engineering is evolving, there is little doubt. Web pages and applications of today make even the most sophisticated software of even a decade ago look ancient. The speed of evolution is mesmerizing. This high-speed evolution has brought us many benefits, of which nearly the entire world has benefited. But in many ways, we have become […]

Time for change We aren’t Software Engineers. We develop, we design, we gather requirements, we deliver, but we don’t engineer. As I describe in Call To Arms, its time for us to get real, to move our industry toward a real Engineering discipline. We cannot continue along our current troubled, unsustainable path. We are all […]

Engineering Fellow Software “Engineers”, we have a problem. Too long have we contented ourselves with compilation. Rampant bugs, system failures, and security issues have left deep wounds in our industry. We cannot keep clumsily fumbling forward, projected by the sheer convenience and power our work creates. It is time for us to grow up. It […]

For some of us, its hard to find what topic in Software Engineering we want to specialize and concentrate on. For me, I’ve enjoyed my journey between back end to front end and much in between, server and database administration to requirement gathering and customer and bug management. While I firmly agree that developers are […]

an issue I recognized as plaguing many companies: the cost a company pays for not investing in quality Software Engineers, and for not encouraging and enabling existing Software Engineers to keep up to date and stay passionate.

What happens when you decide to embark on the craftsman’s journey, but have the misfortune of being at your dream job? Is this a irreconcilable incompatibility? Are you forced with either abandoning your dream job, or abandoning the craftsman journey? If you decide to stay, will the path still take you forward, or are you […]

Salesforce is a pretty decent stack when you want to get something up and running quickly. You can quickly create the model of your data using Custom Objects. Its then easy to create basic pages to list and edit these. In fact, you get this for free without coding at all. Of course, likely you’ll […]