Software Development

Automated testing at Happy Bear Software

How you test your code is a highly contentious topic for developers. At our company we give developers full autonomy to decide on a testing strategy based on the details of the project they’re working on. But just like magazines and publications have a “house…

The programmer career middle-game

You’re a programmer about ten years into your career. You’ve worked on countless projects, watched teams do all the wrong things, watched teams do all the right things, and have been somewhere in middle most of the time. You still like making things, but are weary of…

Questions to ask in your developer job interview

Ask better questions, get more info about the job, make better decisions.

In job interviews, there comes a point when the interviewer asks you for questions. Most…

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…

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.

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*