Software Best Practices

Jurgen Appelo has an interesting article on StickyMinds entitled " Code Ownership Re-Visited " Jurgen prefers the term "artifact assignment" rather than "code ownership" and explains there are 4 methods of artifact assignment: Local Artifact Assignment (LAA) delegates policy...

The folks over at SmartBear software have written a nice little book entitled The Best Kept Secrets of Code Reviews . It's free if you go over to their webpage and ask for it (you have to fill out a registration form, and it takes a few weeks to arrive, but they havent spammed me at all since I registered...

In an earlier blog-entry reviewing the book Code Craft , I mentioned the classic paper by Peter Miller entitled " Recursive Make Considered Harmful " ... Anyway, I recently ran across a bunch of webpages that examined or revisited the issue. I thought several of them were worth sharing, so...

Nostarch Press recently published the book Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code by Pete Goodelife. I have to say the book looks pretty "excellent" itself. It may even become a new classic, replacing the old classic " Writing Solid Code " by Steve MacGuire. And if Steve...