All estimates are still lies

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

A note about hiring junior developers

From the LRUG mailing list:

Seems strange that there’s so much talk about skills shortages and yet
not many companies seem prepared to train their own. *shrug*

HBS Internal: Brexit Strategy

This is our internal memo about Brexit, the effect it has had on our business and what we’re intending to do about it. It’s not intended for public consumption, but someone asked us to share it and there’s nothing highly sensitive in it, so I’ve posted it here.

HBS Company Reading List

This is a reading list for permanent employees of Happy Bear Software. You can expense the purchases of all of these books.

Required reading

As commander in chief of this company you are hearby ordered to purchase (and…

Make your development team happy with better communication

Defining Requirements

You’ve defined the project goals in broad strokes and are talking to someone that can build your web application. The next step is to plan the first stages of the project so that you can start shipping software.

Core skills for full-stack developers

The word “web developer” means different things, depending on who you ask. We say that web…

Ship early, ship often

You have a developer and a clear set of requirements to get your project started. Now you need to begin shipping software.

By “shipping” we mean going through the process of implementing your requirements and deploying it to somewhere you can interact with it…

Recommendation: The Alliance

During my career as a developer, I didn’t stay in one job for more than a year. I was a chronic job-hopper…