Let’s Try Programming Mobile Apps on Mobile Devices

The whole world is moving to mobile devices … except for mobile app developers. Any kind of software development still requires a big screen where you can see a lot of code. It is too annoying to see and edit real, world-class code on an…

The Future of Big Software Development

This picture shows how we will build big software systems in the future. We are now moving…

Yes, Crash the Server

We’re trying out a completely new product, and the developer was anxious about posting a test release on a small server with limited capacity.

I can see why this makes him nervous. We’re used to the standards of assembla.com which is up about 2196 of 2198 hours in…

Release More Frequently Webinar

Here is the recording of the Release More Frequently Webinar that I presented this week. I showed highlights from the Unblock! ebook in 24 exciting minutes. There should be at least one thing in here that will help you release more frequently. The Q&A was good, and it…

Tech Tax is repealed with overwhelming votes

The Massachusetts “techtax” was repealed last week. The House voted for repeal 156–1. The Senate vote was 38–0. The Globe newspaper headline when the tax passed in July was “Tech sector powerless to stop new software tax”. By September the headline was…