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Graham's Law of Power

Because making programs short is what high level languages are for. It may not be 100% accurate to say the power of a programming language is in inverse proportion to the length of programs written in it, but it's damned close. Paul Graham, "Take the Arc Challenge" By definition, there...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 02-09-2008
What a marvelous predicament!

Fred Brooks' seminal work, The Mythical Man Month , is rightly considered a classic on the topic of software development. Although it was originally written over 30 years ago, it is still a remarkably insightful and interesting read today. The apparent timelessness of Brooks' work is surely due...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 02-01-2008
It's the Framework, stupid

Careful readers of this blog have probably noticed that despite working for a company that specializes in custom software development using Microsoft technologies, I have not posted much about Microsoft or .NET technologies. Instead I have focused on general software development topics, plus a smattering...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 01-20-2008
Technicians or Versatilists?

Joel Spolsky had an excellent post discussing his views on restructuring CS programs in colleges to be more attractive to potential students and produce better programmers. His Bachelor of Fine Arts in Programming curriculum includes more project and software lifecycle work, plus some liberal arts classes...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 01-12-2008
The Subjectivity of Software

In his blog, author Jonah Lehrer relates the story of several experiments run around wine tasting. One experiment involved coloring a white wine red, the other involved putting the same wine in two different bottles. In both experiments, expectations overrode the reality of the wines. So the same wine...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 11-14-2007
Amazon.com - Web Dinosaur Still Kicking

Amazon.com has been around for what seems like an eternity in Internet time; it was launched in 1995 as on online bookstore and now sells videos, music, groceries and pretty much anything else you can think of. Amazon.com and its aggressive business plan of high volume, low (or no) margin sales off of...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 11-11-2007
InnerWorkings Developer Training

I recently participated in a trial of InnerWorkings' developer training tools. These tools are a stand alone Developer Interface application and a set of plug-ins for Visual Studio that are used to host interactive courses on .NET programming topics. Self directed learning is an important part of...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 09-17-2007
Homo Economicus: Hollow Man?

Homo economicus , or Economic man , is the concept in some economic theories of man (that is, a human ) as a rational and self-interested actor who desires wealth, avoids unnecessary labor, and has the ability to make judgments towards those ends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus In my last...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 04-29-2007
Leftovers*

*aka little thoughts that didn't quite merit their own full post 1. Replacing the Green Liquid When I was fresh out of college and trying to adjust to the working world, I read about how one programmer and his friends rated the difficulty of coding tasks in terms of how much coffee or Mountain Dew...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 04-22-2007
Apple's PC Market Share: Are They Playing to Win?

With the release of AppleTV, Apple has again made a splash in the computing world. This splash is sure to be accompanied by the usual chorus of disbelief from commentators that despite its innovation and obvious advantages over Microsoft, Apple's share of the PC market is only at 6 or 7% . To point...

Posted to Peter Miller (Weblog) by pmiller on 04-09-2007

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