How Reddit Will (Maybe) Save Software Development

Or, This Started as a Diatribe About Bad Programming Books, and Turned Into Beating a Dead Horse. Decades after The Mythical Man Month examined the management of software development, projects are still failing at an alarming rate. Some estimates say that as few as 34% of software engineering undertakings are successful. Not only that, but [...]

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This post was written by Jake on May 12, 2008 Comments (10)

Stick Figure Web Design

We’ve been inaccurately describing our websites for years. I’m guilty of this transgression, just as you are. Our vocabulary for giving a snappy summary of websites has been limited to “Web 1.0″ and “Web 2.0″, and it’s just not enough to succinctly convey the choices web designers use when making a page. Web 1.0 simply [...]

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This post was written by Jake on September 29, 2007 Comments (2)