Matt Blodgett

Nothing makes my spidey sense tingle in a job ad quite like the phrase “unlimited vacation.” It’s one of those transparently ridiculous ...

One way of pursuing a career in software development is to perennially jump from technology to technology, or you may say, tool to tool. The...

The Programmer-Archaeologist churns through this maddening nest of ancient languages and hidden/forgotten tools to repair existing progra...

I’ve often thought about how to explain the differences between working for small/medium businesses and an “Enterprise”. Well, Ian Miell bre...

I recently came across Martin Fowler ’s article on “ Opportunistic Refactoring ”: If you don't spend time on taking your opportunit...

A recent comment on Hacker News got me thinking about the role of QA people in software projects… To quote Dodge ( via Deming ), ...

Conway’s Law states: organizations which design systems...are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication str...