It’s Just Software
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a very long time, but I’ve always had other, more pressing work, to do, and so I never wrote it. Rands posted his version today, though he’s using my point...
View ArticleSubversion vs. Git
If you don’t like making up your own mind and prefer to ride the wave of whatever happens to be popular right now, you might think that, when it comes to source control, there are two choices:...
View ArticleThe Diminishing Returns of Long Hours
A lesson I learned during my years in university and had to re-learn once or twice while working in Silicon Valley is that working long hours is beneficial, but only for a very short period of time....
View ArticleCueYou on All Sides with Ann Fisher
Light Year Software has been working with CueYou, Ltd. for the last few months on their exciting new app. This morning they were guests on All Sides with Ann Fisher to talk about the product. The post...
View ArticleWhy Software Projects Are Regularly Late
Michael Wolfe provides an excellent answer to the question of why software development estimates are regularly off by a factor of 2-3: Let’s take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles...
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