Going back a couple of years, the development group I was contracting in at the time had decided to move out of its present chaotic state and start using a development process. I wonder how well that sentence conveys what they were planning to do? Just to clarify, the plan was this: all permanent development Read more…
Many thanks to John for commenting on my Performance Tuning article. I’d just like to quote a snippet of what John has to say: “After all there’s no point optimising code that doesn’t actually work correctly” It reminded me of something obvious I forgot to mention in my previous articles: another of the “sins” I Read more…
In my previous article on Performance Requirements I argued that performance issues are requirements, and that this is not well understood in the software development community in general. In this article I’m going look at the performance tuning of existing code, argue that this is also poorly understood, and discuss the right way to go Read more…
Performance – in this case meaning a piece of software’s run time speed – is one of those things that always seems to cause problems whenever and wherever it comes up. Unfortunately, I think this is because it is very poorly understood across the software development community in general. Harking back to a contract I Read more…
A blogger who runs a credit card related blog recently contacted me via this site, suggesting we should add each others’ blogs to our blogrolls to increase our readerships. I responded as follows: I declined to link to his blog I pointed out that I don’t have a blogroll on this site anyway I promised Read more…